Regulation 19

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

N.B. These Regulations have been superseded: see Mental Health Regulations for details.

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.