{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/13",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Effect of short-term detention certificate etc. on certain orders",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) below applies where—\n(a) a patient is subject to a relevant order; and\n(b) a short-term detention certificate is granted in respect of the patient.\n(2) A relevant order shall cease to authorise the measures specified in it for the period during which the patient is subject to—\n(a) the short-term detention certificate, or\n(b) an extension certificate.\n(3) In this section, the references to a relevant order are to—\n(a) a compulsion order, or\n(b) a compulsory treatment order or an interim compulsory treatment order.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 56(1)(a) substituted (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 8(2)(a), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 56(2) substituted (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 8(2)(b), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 56(3) inserted (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 8(2)(c), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 56 title substituted (30.6.2017) by virtue of Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 8(3)(a), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 5.10.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (as substituted (1.7.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/375, art. 2 and as amended (22.9.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/459, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/13/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:46.625109+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}