Mental Health Act 2007

For an overview of the Mental Health Act 2007, see Mental Health Act 2007 Overview. That page contains details of all the changes made by the new Act and the related secondary legislation. The 2007 Act is an amending Act so cannot easily be read on its own.

Old related document

Post-publication corrections

External links

DH documents, showing the old Acts with all the changes (using ~~strikethrough~~ and underlining). Check see Mental Health Act 2007 in force dates.

Mental Health Act 1983 as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007

Mental Capacity Act 2005 as amended by Mental Health Act 2007 (16/1/09 version)

House of Commons Health Committee, 'Post-legislative scrutiny of the Mental Health Act 2007: First Report of Session 2013–14' (HC 584, 14/8/13). Chapter headings are: (1) Introduction; (2) The Appropriate Treatment Test, Community Treatment Orders and detention; (3) Independent Mental Health Advocates; (4) Places of safety; (5) Supervised Community Treatment; (6) Interaction with the Mental Capacity Act 2005; (7) Ethnicity and the use of the Mental Health Act; (8) Conclusions and recommendations