Mental Health Act 2025

2025 c. 33 · Enacted 18 December 2025 · Extends to United Kingdom

Contents

1. Code of practice Not yet in force
2. 1Principles to inform decisions Not yet in force
3. 2Application of principles to Wales Not yet in force
4. Autism and learning disability Not yet in force
5. 3Application of the Mental Health Act 1983: autism and learning disability Not yet in force
6. 4People with autism or learning disability Not yet in force
7. Grounds for detention and community treatment orders Not yet in force
8. 5Grounds for detention Not yet in force
9. 6Grounds for community treatment orders Not yet in force
10. 7Grounds for discharge by tribunal Not yet in force
11. Appropriate medical treatment Not yet in force
12. 8Appropriate medical treatment: therapeutic benefit Not yet in force
13. 9Remission or release of prisoners etc from hospital: treatment condition Not yet in force
14. The responsible clinician Not yet in force
15. 10Nomination of the responsible clinician Not yet in force
16. Treatment Not yet in force
17. 11Making treatment decisions Not yet in force
18. 12Appointment of doctors to provide second opinions Not yet in force
19. 13Medicine etc: treatment conflicting with a decision by or on behalf of a patient Not yet in force
20. 14Medicine etc: treatment in other circumstances Not yet in force
21. 15Electro-convulsive therapy etc Not yet in force
22. 16Review of treatment Not yet in force
23. 17Urgent treatment to alleviate serious suffering Not yet in force
24. 18Urgent electro-convulsive therapy etc Not yet in force
25. 19Remote assessment for treatment Not yet in force
26. 20Capacity to consent to treatment Not yet in force
27. 21Care and treatment plans Not yet in force
28. Community treatment orders Not yet in force
29. 22Consultation of the community clinician Not yet in force
30. 23Conditions of community treatment orders Not yet in force
31. Nominated persons Not yet in force
32. 24Nominated person Not yet in force
33. 25Applications for admission or guardianship: role of nominated person Not yet in force
34. 26Discharge of patients: role of nominated person Not yet in force
35. 27Community treatment orders: role of nominated person Not yet in force
36. 28Transfer of patients: role of nominated person Not yet in force
37. Detention periods Not yet in force
38. 29Detention periods Not yet in force
39. Periods for applications and references to tribunal
40. 30Periods for tribunal applications
41. 31References to tribunal Not yet in force
42. 32References: restricted patients subject to deprivation of liberty conditions
43. 33References: restricted patients not subject to deprivation of liberty conditions Not yet in force
44. Discharge: process Not yet in force
45. 34Discharge: process Not yet in force
46. Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence
47. 35Conditional discharge subject to deprivation of liberty conditions
48. 36Transfers of prisoners and others to hospital: conditions
49. 37Transfers of prisoners and others to hospital: time limits Not yet in force
50. 38Transfer directions for persons detained in youth detention accommodation
51. 39Minor amendment
52. Help and information for patients Not yet in force
53. 40Independent mental health advocates Not yet in force
54. 41Information about complaints for detained patients Not yet in force
55. 42Information about complaints for community patients Not yet in force
56. 43Information for conditionally discharged patients Not yet in force
57. 44Advance choice documents Not yet in force
58. After-care Not yet in force
59. 45Tribunal power to recommend after-care Not yet in force
60. 46After-care services Not yet in force
61. Miscellaneous
62. 47Tribunal powers in guardianship cases: burden of proof Not yet in force
63. 48Removal of police stations and prisons as places of safety Not yet in force
64. 49Remand for a person’s own protection etc Not yet in force
65. 50Removal of interim remand patients to and from Channel Islands or Isle of Man Not yet in force
66. 51Human Rights Act 1998: extension to certain private care providers
67. 52Review of duty to notify incidents
68. General
69. 53Power of Secretary of State to make consequential provision
70. 54Power of Welsh Ministers to make consequential provision
71. 55Extent
72. 56Commencement
73. 57Short title
74. Schedule 1: Application of the 1983 Act to autism and learning disability: amendments and transitory provision Not yet in force
75. 1Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
76. 2Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
77. 3Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
78. 4Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
79. 5Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
80. 6Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
81. 7Amendments of Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
82. 8Amendments of Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
83. 9Amendments of Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
84. 10Amendments of Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
85. 11Amendments of Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
86. 12Amendments of Part 4 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
87. 13Amendments of Part 4 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
88. 14Amendments of Part 4 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
89. 15Amendments of Part 4A of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
90. 16Amendments of Part 5 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
91. 17Amendments of Part 5 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
92. 18Amendments of Part 5 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
93. 19Amendments of Part 5 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
94. 20Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
95. 21Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
96. 22Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
97. 23Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
98. 24Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
99. 25Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983 Not yet in force
100. Schedule 2: Nominated persons Not yet in force
101. Part 1: Appointment etc Not yet in force
102. 1Paragraph 1 Not yet in force
103. 2Paragraph 2 Not yet in force
104. 3Paragraph 3 Not yet in force
105. Part 2: Functions of nominated person Not yet in force
106. 4Paragraph 4 Not yet in force
107. 5Paragraph 5 Not yet in force
108. 6Paragraph 6 Not yet in force
109. 7Paragraph 7 Not yet in force
110. 8Paragraph 8 Not yet in force
111. 9Paragraph 9 Not yet in force
112. 10Paragraph 10 Not yet in force
113. 11Paragraph 11 Not yet in force
114. 12Paragraph 12 Not yet in force
115. 13Paragraph 13 Not yet in force
116. 14Paragraph 14 Not yet in force
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119. 17Paragraph 17 Not yet in force
120. 18Paragraph 18 Not yet in force
121. 19Paragraph 19 Not yet in force
122. 20Paragraph 20 Not yet in force
123. 21Paragraph 21 Not yet in force
124. 22Paragraph 22 Not yet in force
125. 23Paragraph 23 Not yet in force
126. 24Paragraph 24 Not yet in force
127. 25Paragraph 25 Not yet in force
128. Part 3: Patients concerned in criminal proceedings etc: functions of nominated person Not yet in force
129. 26Paragraph 26 Not yet in force
130. 27Paragraph 27 Not yet in force
131. 28Paragraph 28 Not yet in force
132. 29Paragraph 29 Not yet in force
133. 30Paragraph 30 Not yet in force
134. Schedule 3: Independent mental health advocates Not yet in force
135. 1Paragraph 1 Not yet in force
136. 2Paragraph 2 Not yet in force
137. 3Paragraph 3 Not yet in force
138. 4Paragraph 4 Not yet in force
139. 5Paragraph 5 Not yet in force
140. 6Paragraph 6 Not yet in force
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142. 8Paragraph 8 Not yet in force