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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2017/article-21",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/197",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2017",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Periods for short-term compulsion: amendments made by section 42 of the Act",
  "text": "Despite the commencement of section 42 of the Act—\n(a) the amendment made by subsection (3) of that section to section 53A of the 1995 Act (interim compulsion order: supplementary) has no effect where the interim compulsion order referred to in section 53A(1) of the 1995 Act was made before the appointed day;\n(b) the amendment made by subsection (5) of that section to section 54 of the 1995 Act (unfitness for trial: further provision) has no effect where the temporary compulsion order referred to in section 54(2B)(a) of the 1995 Act is made before the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 53A was inserted by the 2003 Act, section 131."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Subsection (2B) was inserted by the 2003 Act, schedule 4, paragraph 8(b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/197/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:09.000089+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."
}