{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017-commencement-no-4-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017-commencement-no-4-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1017",
  "legislation_title": "The Policing and Crime Act 2017 (Commencement No. 4 and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017-commencement-no-4-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Saving provisions in relation to powers under the Mental Health Act 1983",
  "text": "(1) Despite the coming into force of sections 80 to 83 of the Act in accordance with regulation 3, the amendments made by those sections do not apply in relation to a person where—\n(a) the warrant authorising the removal of that person under section 135 of the Mental Health Act 1983 was issued before 11th December 2017; or\n(b) the removal of that person to a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 started before 11th December 2017.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 20; section 135 was amended by paragraph 26 of Part I of Schedule 6, and Part 1 of Schedule 7, to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c.60), paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), paragraph 9(9) of Schedule 4 to the Care Standards Act 2002 (c.14), section 44(2) of, and paragraph 10(a) of Schedule 2 to, the Mental Health Act 2007 (c.12), and S.I. 2015/914 and 2016/413. There are other amendments but none are relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 136 was amended by section 44(3) of, and paragraph 10(b) of Schedule 2 to, the Mental Health Act 2007."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1017/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:16.151083+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."
}