Overview

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.

The legislation

Mental Health Act 2007:

• Mental Health Act 2007 (HTML) on OPSI website

• Mental Health Act 2007 (PDF) on OPSI website (see also the Post-publication corrections)

• Mental Health Act 2007 on Statute Law Database

DH documents, showing the old Acts with all the changes (using strikethrough and underlining). Note that not all the changes on these documents are in force yet (see Mental Health Act 2007 in force dates for details).

• 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)

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