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Statutory Instruments
MENTAL HEALTH
Made
3rd September 1993
Laid before Parliament
10th September 1993
Coming into force
1st October 1993
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 32(1) and (2) of the Mental Health Act 1983(1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:-�
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st October 1993.
(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Regulations 1983(2).
2.-(1) Form 13 (record for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983, section 5(4)) contained in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph of this regulation.
(2) Immediately before the words "of the professional register" there shall be inserted the following:-�
"OR
(c)in Part 13 (nurses qualified following a course of preparation in mental health nursing)
OR
(d)in Part 14 (nurses qualified following a course of preparation in mental handicap nursing)"(3).
Virginia Bottomley
Secretary of State for Health
3rd September 1993
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Regulations 1983 by adding references, in Form 13 of Schedule 1, to two additional parts of the register of qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors, namely Parts 13 and 14. Nurses registered in those Parts are prescribed ( see the Mental Health (Nurses) Amendment Order 1993, S.I. 1993/2155), for the purposes of section 5(4) of the Mental Health Act 1983, as nurses on the basis of whose written record a patient who is receiving treatment for a mental disorder as an in-�patient in hospital may be detained for up to 6 hours.
S.I. 1983/893.