Mental Health Act 2025
Mental Health Act 2025 (2025 c. 33)
- Mental Health Act 2025 (2025 c. 33)
- Code of practice
- 1 Principles to inform decisions
- 2 Application of principles to Wales
- Autism and learning disability
- 3 Application of the Mental Health Act 1983: autism and learning disability
- 4 People with autism or learning disability
- Grounds for detention and community treatment orders
- 5 Grounds for detention
- 6 Grounds for community treatment orders
- 7 Grounds for discharge by tribunal
- Appropriate medical treatment
- 8 Appropriate medical treatment: therapeutic benefit
- 9 Remission or release of prisoners etc from hospital: treatment condition
- The responsible clinician
- 10 Nomination of the responsible clinician
- Treatment
- 11 Making treatment decisions
- 12 Appointment of doctors to provide second opinions
- 13 Medicine etc: treatment conflicting with a decision by or on behalf of a patient
- 14 Medicine etc: treatment in other circumstances
- 15 Electro-convulsive therapy etc
- 16 Review of treatment
- 17 Urgent treatment to alleviate serious suffering
- 18 Urgent electro-convulsive therapy etc
- 19 Remote assessment for treatment
- 20 Capacity to consent to treatment
- 21 Care and treatment plans
- Community treatment orders
- 22 Consultation of the community clinician
- 23 Conditions of community treatment orders
- Nominated persons
- 24 Nominated person
- 25 Applications for admission or guardianship: role of nominated person
- 26 Discharge of patients: role of nominated person
- 27 Community treatment orders: role of nominated person
- 28 Transfer of patients: role of nominated person
- Detention periods
- 29 Detention periods
- Periods for applications and references to tribunal
- 30 Periods for tribunal applications
- 31 References to tribunal
- 32 References: restricted patients subject to deprivation of liberty conditions
- 33 References: restricted patients not subject to deprivation of liberty conditions
- Discharge: process
- 34 Discharge: process
- Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence
- 35 Conditional discharge subject to deprivation of liberty conditions
- 36 Transfers of prisoners and others to hospital: conditions
- 37 Transfers of prisoners and others to hospital: time limits
- 38 Transfer directions for persons detained in youth detention accommodation
- 39 Minor amendment
- Help and information for patients
- 40 Independent mental health advocates
- 41 Information about complaints for detained patients
- 42 Information about complaints for community patients
- 43 Information for conditionally discharged patients
- 44 Advance choice documents
- After-care
- 45 Tribunal power to recommend after-care
- 46 After-care services
- Miscellaneous
- 47 Tribunal powers in guardianship cases: burden of proof
- 48 Removal of police stations and prisons as places of safety
- 49 Remand for a person’s own protection etc
- 50 Removal of interim remand patients to and from Channel Islands or Isle of Man
- 51 Human Rights Act 1998: extension to certain private care providers
- 52 Review of duty to notify incidents
- General
- 53 Power of Secretary of State to make consequential provision
- 54 Power of Welsh Ministers to make consequential provision
- 55 Extent
- 56 Commencement
- 57 Short title
- Schedules
- Schedule 1 Application of the 1983 Act to autism and learning disability: amendments and transitory provision
- Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Amendments of Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Amendments of Part 4 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Amendments of Part 4A of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Amendments of Part 5 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Schedule 2 Nominated persons
- Part 1 Appointment etc
- Part 2 Functions of nominated person
- Part 3 Patients concerned in criminal proceedings etc: functions of nominated person
- Schedule 3 Independent mental health advocates
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