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Mental Health Act 1983

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55In section 38 of the [1980 c. 58.] Limitation Act 1980—

(a)in subsection (3) for the words " Mental Health Act 1959 " there shall be substituted the words " Mental Health Act 1983 " ; and

(b)in subsection (4)—

(i)in paragraph (a), for the words " the Mental Health Act 1959 or section 30 or 31 of the Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 " there shall be substituted the words " the Mental Health Act 1983 (otherwise than by virtue of section 35 or 89) " ; and

(ii)for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

“(b)while he is receiving treatment as an in-patient in any hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983 or mental nursing home within the meaning of the [1975 c. 37.] Nursing Homes Act 1975 without being liable to be detained under the said Act of 1983 (otherwise than by virtue of section 35 or 89), being treatment which follows without any interval a period during which he was liable to be detained or subject to guardianship under the Mental Health Act 1959, or the said Act of 1983 (otherwise than by virtue of section 35 or 89) or by virtue of any enactment repealed or excluded by the Mental Health Act 1959”.

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