{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-nurses-england-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1207",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Nurses) (England) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-nurses-england-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prescribed classes of nurse",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 5(4) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (power to detain patient in hospital for maximum of 6 hours) a nurse of the prescribed class is a nurse registered in either Sub-Part 1 or 2 of the register maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, whose registration includes an entry specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) An entry in the register referred to in paragraph (1) is an entry indicating that the nurse’s field of practice is either—\n(a) mental health nursing, or\n(b) learning disabilities nursing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/253."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1207/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:18.955269+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."
}