{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-mutual-recognition-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-mutual-recognition-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1204",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Mutual Recognition) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-mutual-recognition-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Approval under section 12(2) of the Act",
  "text": "(1) Any person who is approved in relation to England for the purposes of section 12(2) of the Act, or treated as approved by virtue of section 12(2A) of the Act, shall in all circumstances relevant to the purposes of section 12(2) be treated as approved in relation to Wales.\n(2) Any person who is approved in relation to Wales for the purposes of section 12(2) of the Act, or treated as approved by virtue of section 12(2A) of the Act, shall in all circumstances relevant to the purposes of section 12(2) be treated as approved in relation to England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 12(2A) was inserted by section 16 of the Mental Health Act 2007."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1204/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:20.966701+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."
}