Regulation 19

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Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Regulations 1983 (as amended)

N.B. See Mental Health Regulations page for details of regulations which supersede the regulations on this page.

Contents

Regulations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10A, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Schedules: 1, 2

Explanatory note

Regulation

Transitional provisions

19.—(1) Until the expiration of the period mentioned in paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 5 to the Act (delay of introduction of approved social workers) for any reference in these regulations (and in any form in Schedule 1 to these regulations) to an approved social worker there shall be substituted a reference to a mental welfare officer.

(2) Any opinion of the responsible medical officer recorded for the purposes ofparagraph 39 of Schedule 5 to the Act shall be in the form set out in Form 32.

Amendments

None.

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