{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-welfare-commission-for-scotland-authorised-persons-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/205",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (Authorised Persons) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-welfare-commission-for-scotland-authorised-persons-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 15(1) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 empowers a person authorised (an “authorised person”) by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland to carry out in private a medical examination of a patient.\nSection 15(2) of that Act provides that an authorised person shall be (a) a medical commissioner or (b) a member of staff of the Commission who has such qualifications and experience and who has undertaken such training as may be prescribed by regulations.\nThese regulations prescribe the qualifications and experience required of those members of staff.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/205/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:26:20.559519+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."
}