{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-scotland-act-2015/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-scotland-act-2015/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-scotland-act-2015",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Suspension of orders on short-term detention",
  "text": "(1) The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 56 (effect of subsequent short-term detention certificate on compulsory treatment order)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), for the words “compulsory treatment order” there is substituted “ relevant order ”,\n(b) for subsection (2) there is substituted—\n“(2) A relevant order shall cease to authorise the measures specified in it for the period during which the patient is subject to—\n(a) the short-term detention certificate, or\n(b) an extension certificate.”,\n(c) after subsection (2) there is inserted—\n“(3) In this section, the references to a relevant order are to—\n(a) a compulsion order, or\n(b) a compulsory treatment order or an interim compulsory treatment order.”.\n(3) In relation to section 56—\n(a) its title becomes “ Effect of short-term detention certificate etc. on certain orders ”,\n(b) the italic heading immediately preceding it becomes “ Effect of short-term detention certificate etc. on certain orders ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 30.6.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch. (with art. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2015/9/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:46.056099+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."
}