Mental Health Act 2007

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)

Related books

• Richard Jones, Mental Health Act Manual (19th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2016)·
• Paul Bowen, Blackstone's Guide to the Mental Health Act 2007 (Oxford 2007)·
• Brenda Hale, Mental Health Law (6th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2017)·
• Larry Gostin et al (eds), Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy (Oxford 2010)·

External links

• 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

• Adam Brimelow, 'Basic rights of mentally ill "violated"' (BBC, 14/8/13)

• Jonathan Rayner, 'MPs condemn ‘complacent’ approach to deprivation of liberty' (Law Society Gazette, 19/8/13)