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  "long_title": "This Order amends the Mental Health (Nurses) Order 1983 by adding two further classes of nurses to the classes of nurses prescribed for the purposes of section 5(4) of the Mental Health Act 1983, as nurses on the basis of whose written record a patient who is receiving treatment for a mental disorder as an in–patient in hospital may be detained for up to 6 hours.",
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