{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-review-tribunal-amendment-rules-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-review-tribunal-amendment-rules-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/314",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Review Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-review-tribunal-amendment-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of rule 2 of the principal Rules",
  "text": "Paragraph (1) of rule 2 (interpretation) shall be amended by—\n(a) inserting in the definition of “decision with recommendations” the words “or (3A)(a)” after the words “section 72(3)(a)”;\n(b) inserting after the definition of “health authority” the following definition—\n““National Health Service trust” means a body established under section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 ”;\n(c) inserting in the definition of “responsible authority” after sub-paragraph (b), the word “and” and a new sub-paragraph—\n“(c) in relation to a patient subject to after-care under supervision, the Health Authority which has the duty under section 117 of the Act to provide after-care services for the patient.”;\n(d) inserting in the definition of “tribunal” after the word “guardianship” the words “or is (or is to be) subject to after-care under supervision”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsection (3A) of section 72 was inserted in the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20) (“the Act”) by paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 1 to the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 c. 52 (“the 1995 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/314/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:31.653148+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."
}