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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2017/article-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Section 46 of the 2003 Act: notification by hospital managers",
  "text": "Despite the commencement of section 5 of the Act, the amendments made by subsection (3) of that section to section 46 (hospital managers’ duties: notification) of the 2003 Act have no effect where the short-term detention certificate referred to in section 46(1) of the 2003 Act has been granted before the appointed day.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/197/article/6",
    "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."
}