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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-71.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1820",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/71",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20)",
  "text": "(1) The Mental Health Act 1983 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 134(3)(a) (correspondence of patients), after “Minister of the Crown” there is inserted “or the Scottish Ministers” and after “House of Parliament” there is inserted “or member of the Scottish Parliament”.\n(3) In section 142(1) (pay, pensions, etc., of mentally disordered persons), after “Consolidated Fund” there is inserted “or the Scottish Consolidated Fund”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 71 in force at 1.7.1999, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 134 was amended by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47), Schedule 13, paragraph 5(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1820/schedule/2/paragraph/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:54.889802+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."
}