Legislation – Mental Health Act 2025
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Schedule 1Application of the 1983 Act to autism and learning disability: amendments and transitory provision
Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983
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(1)
Section 20 (renewal of authority in relation to admission for treatment and guardianship) is amended as follows.
(2)
“(a)
the patient is suffering from psychiatric disorder of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for the patient to receive medical treatment in a hospital,”.
(3)
“(a)
the patient is suffering from—
(i)
psychiatric disorder,
(ii)
autism, or
(iii)
learning disability which has serious behavioural consequences,
of a nature or degree which warrants the patient’s reception into guardianship, and”.