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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-amendment-rules-2020/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2020/246",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No. 2) Amendment Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-no-2-amendment-rules-2020",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No. 2) Rules 2005",
  "text": "In rule 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “party”—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (f), omit “and”,\n(b) after paragraph (g), insert—\n“and\n(h) the patient’s responsible medical officer in any proceedings in relation to an application under section 164A of the Act;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 2 is relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2015/334."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 164A of the 2003 Act is inserted by section 26(3) and (4) of the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/246/article/3",
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  "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."
}