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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-patient-representation-prescribed-persons-scotland-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/175",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Patient Representation) (Prescribed Persons) (Scotland) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-patient-representation-prescribed-persons-scotland-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Mental Health\nMade 30th May 2017\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 1st June 2017\nComing into force 30th June 2017\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 250(2), (2A), (4) and (7) and 326(2) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 13 (“the 2003 Act”). Subsection (2A) of section 250 was inserted by section 23(2)(b) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9, “the 2015 Act”). See section 329 for the definition of “regulations”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/175/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."
}