{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-units-use-of-force-act-2018/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-units-use-of-force-act-2018/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/27",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-units-use-of-force-act-2018",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“health service hospital” has the same meaning as in section 275(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“independent hospital” has the same meaning as in section 145(1) of the Mental Health Act 1983;\n“the NHS” has the same meaning as in section 64(4) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012;\n“responsible person” means a person appointed under section 2(1);\n“relevant health organisation” means—\n(a)an NHS trust;\n(b)an NHS foundation trust;\n(c)any person who provides health care services for the purposes of the NHS within the meaning of Part 3 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012;\n“staff” means any person who works for a relevant health organisation that operates a mental health unit (whether as an employee or a contractor) who—\n(a)may be authorised to use force on a patient in the unit,\n(b)may authorise the use of force on a particular patient in the unit, or\n(c)has the function of providing general authority for the use of force in the unit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 in force at 31.3.2022 by S.I. 2021/1372, reg. 2(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/27/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:39.221184+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."
}