Mental Capacity Act 2005

Mental health arrangements: other definitions U.K.

[F1 55 In “medical treatment for mental disorder”—

(a) “medical treatment” has the same meaning as in the Mental Health Act (see section 145(1) and (4)), but

(b) in the case of a person with learning disability, the medical treatment is not to be considered by reason of that disability to be for mental disorder unless the disability is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct by that person.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. AA1 inserted (16.5.2019 for specified purposes) by Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (c. 18), s. 6(3), Sch. 1