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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2017/article-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Emergency detention in hospital: exclusion for patients where section 113(5) of the 2003 Act applies",
  "text": "Despite the commencement of section 4 of the Act, the amendments made by subsection (3) of that section to section 38 (duties on hospital managers: examination, notification etc.) of the 2003 Act have no effect where the emergency detention certificate referred to in section 38(1) of the 2003 Act has been granted before the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/197/article/5",
    "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."
}