{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-rules-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/420",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-tribunal-for-scotland-practice-and-procedure-rules-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MENTAL HEALTH\nMade 25th August 2005\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 29th August 2005\nComing into force 5th October 2005\nThe Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 10 of schedule 2 to the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and after consultation with the Council on Tribunals and its Scottish Committee in accordance with section 8(1) and (3) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992, hereby make the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/420/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:37.022672+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."
}