{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-cross-border-visits-scotland-regulations-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2008/181",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Cross-border Visits) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-cross-border-visits-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MENTAL HEALTH\nMade 6th May 2008\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(1)\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 309A of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 326(4) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 13; section 309A was inserted by section 72 of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 10)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/181/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}