A
BILL
TO
Make further provision about discrimination against people on the grounds of
their mental health.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Section 141 of the Mental Health Act 1983 is repealed.
(1) Schedule 1 to the Juries Act 1974 is amended as follows.
(2) 5For paragraph 1 substitute—
“1
A person for the time being liable to be detained under the Mental
Health Act 1983.
1A
A person for the time being resident in a hospital on account of
mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983.”.
In the Companies (Model Articles) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3229S.I. 2008/3229)—
(a) paragraph 18(e) of Schedule 1 is revoked;
(b) paragraph 18(e) of Schedule 2 is revoked; and
(c) paragraph 22(e) of Schedule 3 is revoked.
In Schedule 6 to the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations
2007 (S.I. 2007/957S.I. 2007/957), paragraph 4 is revoked.
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Mental Health (Discrimination) Act 2012.
(2)
The provisions of this Act have the same extent as the enactments which they
amend.
(3) 5This Act shall come into force on the day on which it is passed.