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UK Law Reference
Mental Health Act 2025 overview

Mental Health Act 2025 — full text by section

Consolidated text as published on legislation.gov.uk, snapshot 2026-08-24. Read the Act on legislation.gov.uk

57 sections. Default extent: E+W+S+N.I..

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