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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-patient-representation-prescribed-persons-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/175",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Patient Representation) (Prescribed Persons) (Scotland) Regulations 2017",
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  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Saving provision",
  "text": "The provision made by regulation 4 has no effect on the validity of any document which was witnessed, or any certification given, before 30th June 2017, in accordance with section 250 or 253 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, by a person of a class prescribed by the 2004 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 253 was repealed by section 22 of the 2015 Act, subject to saving provisions."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/175/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:25.494532+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."
}