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| Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
This is the text of the Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 13th January 1999. | |||||||||
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Explanatory Notes to the Bill, provided by the Scottish Office with the consent of Mr Eric Clarke, the Member in charge of the Bill, are being published separately as Bill 14- EN. | |||||||||
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| Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill | |||||||||
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B I L L TO Authorise hospital managers to continue to hold, expend and dispose of the property of persons to whom section 94(1) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 no longer applies. 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:- | |||||||||
| Property of former patients. | 1. In section 94 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (powers of hospital managers in relation to property of patients), after subsection (3) insert- | ||||||||
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| Citation, commencement and extent. | 2. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1999. | ||||||||
| (2) This Act comes into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which it is passed. | |||||||||
| (3) This Act extends only to Scotland. | |||||||||
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| © Parliamentary copyright 1999 | Prepared 11 March 1999 |