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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-amendment-rules-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No. 2) Amendment Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-amendment-rules-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Mental Health\nMade 30th May 2017\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 1st June 2017\nComing into force 30th June 2017\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 21(4) and 326 and paragraph 10 of schedule 2 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 326 was amended by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), schedule 18, paragraph 1; the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 9), schedule 5, paragraph 6; the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), sections 16(7) and 36(3); and S.S.I. 2005/465."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 asp 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/172/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:26.948582+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."
}