Mental Health (Specified Treatments, Guardianship Duties etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 1984
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1984/1494 |
| Year | 1984 |
1984 No. 1494 (S. 122)
MENTAL HEALTH
The Mental Health (Specified Treatments, Guardianship Duties etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 198417thSeptember 1984
19thSeptember 1984
30thSeptember 1984
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 43, 97(1)(b) and 98(1)(a) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, and after consulting, in accordance with sections 97(6) and 98(6) of the said Act, such bodies as appear to me to be concerned, I hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Specified Treatments, Guardianship Duties etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 1984 and shall come into operation on 30th September 1984.
Interpretation
2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
"the Act" means the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984;
"guardian" means the person named as guardian in either a guardianship application under Part V of the Act or a guardianship order made under section 175 or 376 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975(b), and which has effect in respect of a patient, and "guardianship" shall be construed accordingly;
"local authority concerned" means—
(a) in the case of a patient in respect of whom a guardianship application under Part V of the Act is effective, the local authority to whom that application was addressed;
(b) in the case of a patient removed to Scotland in pursuance of arrangements under section 81 of the Act or under section 80 of the Mental Health Act 1983(c) the local authority for the place in Scotland at which he was received into guardianship;
(c) in any other case the local authority to whose guardianship the patient is subject or who approved his guardian.
(a) 1984 c.36.
(b) 1975 c.21; section 175 is amended by Schedule 2, paragraph 31 to the Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1983 (c.39) and by Schedule 3, paragraph 26 to the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984; section 376 is amended by Schedule 2, paragraph 34 to the Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1983 and by Schedule 3, paragraph 33 to the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984.
(c) 1983 c.20.
Specified forms of medical treatment
3.—(1) A form of medical treatment for mental disorder hereby specified for the purposes of section 97 of the Act (treatment requiring consent and a second opinion) shall be the surgical implantation of hormones for the purpose of reducing male sexual drive.
(2) A...
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