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2004 No. 429

MENTAL HEALTH

The Mental Health (Advance Statements) (Prescribed Class of Persons) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2004

  Made 30th September 2004 
  Laid before the Scottish Parliament 1st October 2004 
  Coming into force 4th October 2004 

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 275(2)(d) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Advance Statements) (Prescribed Class of Persons) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 4th October 2004.

    (2) In these Regulations-

Prescribed persons
     2. The following class of persons is prescribed for the purposes of section 275(2)(d) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003-

Revocation
    
3. The Mental Health (Advance Statements) (Prescribed Class of Persons) (Scotland) Regulations 2004[3] are hereby revoked.


MALCOLM CHISHOLM
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
30th September 2004



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations replace (with amendment to the coming into force date) the Mental Health (Advance Statements) (Prescribed Class of Persons) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/387) which are revoked by these Regulations (regulation 3). The content of the Regulations is identical in all other respects.

The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 ("the Act") makes provision for the making of "advance statements". Any such statement must be witnessed and certified by a "prescribed person". These Regulations prescribe, for the purposes of section 275(2)(d) of the Act, the class of persons who may witness and certify advance statements (regulation 2).

Advance statements may be withdrawn by following the procedure at section 275(3) of the Act. Any such withdrawal must be witnessed and certified in the same way that an advance statement is witnessed and certified.


Notes:

[1] 2003 asp 13; see section 329 for the definition of "regulations".back

[2] 2001 asp 8.back

[3] S.S.I. 2004/387.back



ISBN 0 11069273 X


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 13 October 2004


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