Statute Law Database
N.B. On 29/7/10 the Legislation.gov.uk website was launched. It will replaced the OPSI and Statute Law Database websites.
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The Statute Law Database, a free database of revised UK primary legislation, was launched on 20/12/06. It contains primary legislation that was in force at 1/2/91 and primary and secondary legislation that has been produced since that date. The primary legislation has been revised to 2002 and half is fully up-to-date. All secondary legislation is shown on the Statute Law Database as originally published, unamended. See the judicial comments in R v William Chambers [2008] EWCA Crim 2467 for unfortunate consequences of the difficulty in finding out what the law is.
Unfortunately, few Acts relating to mental health law have been updated beyond 2002. To compensate for this, you must check the Tables of legislative effects for recent updates to each Act. Note that not all the updates listed in these tables are in force, so you will need to search through the relevant commencement orders. Also, there can be a fortnight's delay before updating legislation is added to the website or the tables of legislative effects. This updating process has been gone through for the legislation reproduced on Mental Health Law Online on the date specified in the relevant index page of this site.
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What links here:
- Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964
- CPIA 1964 s1
- CPIA 1964 s2
- CPIA 1964 s3
- CPIA 1964 s4
- CPIA 1964 s5
- CPIA 1964 s6
- CPIA 1964 s7
- CPIA 1964 s8
- CPIA 1964 s4A
- CPIA 1964 s5A
- CPIA 1964 sch 1
- CPIA 1964 sch 1A
- CPIA 1964 sch 2
- Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991
- CPIA 1964 old
- CPIA 1964 updated
- CPIUPA 1991 s1
- CPIUPA 1991 s2
- CPIUPA 1991 s3
- CPIUPA 1991 s4
- CPIUPA 1991 s5
- CPIUPA 1991 s6
- CPIUPA 1991 s7
- CPIUPA 1991 s8
- CPIUPA 1991 s9
- CPIUPA 1991 sch 1
- CPIUPA 1991 sch 2
- CPIUPA 1991 sch 3
- CPIUPA 1991 sch 4