{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/schedule-8/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/schedule-8/paragraph-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/26",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 134 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (correspondence of patients) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) for “the Post Office” there shall be substituted “ the postal operator concerned ”.\n(3) In subsection (9)—\n(a) after “this Act” there shall be inserted “ and “postal operator” and ”,\n(b) for “has”, where it appears for the second time, there shall be substituted “ have ”, and\n(c) for “the Post Office Act 1953” there shall be substituted “ the Postal Services Act 2000 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 19 wholly in force at 26.3.2001, see s. 130 and S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2, Sch. (subject to arts. 3-42)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/schedule/8/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:44.870444+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."
}