{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/23",
  "legislation_title": "Registered Homes Act 1984 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Interpretation—general.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“local social services authority” means a council which is a local authority for the purposes of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970;\n“maternity home” has the meaning given by section 21 above;\n“mental disorder” means mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder, and any other disorder or disability of mind;\n“mental nursing home” has the meaning given by section 22 above;\n“nursing home” has the meaning given by section 21 above;\n“psychopathic disorder” means a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including significant impairment of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned;\n. . .\n. . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions in s. 55 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Group 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1970 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/23/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:03:04.654679+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."
}