2025 c. 33, s.14

Section 14 — Medicine etc: treatment in other circumstances

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Snapshot: 2026-08-24

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In section 58 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (treatment requiring consent or a second opinion)—

(a) in subsection (1)(b), for “three” substitute “two”;

(b) in subsection (3)(a), after “has consented to it” insert “, that the treatment constitutes appropriate medical treatment”;

(c) in subsection (4), for “(3)(b) above the registered medical practitioner concerned” substitute “(3) the person giving the certificate”.