Part 4

Health Board and local authority functions
Chapter 2

Local authority functions

Provision of services

Assistance with travel
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A local authority—
a
shall—
i
provide, for persons who are not in hospital and who have or have had a mental disorder, such facilities for, or assistance in, travelling as the authority may consider necessary to enable those persons to attend or participate in any of the services mentioned in sections 25 and 26 of this Act; or
ii
secure the provision of such facilities or assistance for such persons; and
b
may—
i
provide such facilities or assistance for persons who are in hospital and who have or have had a mental disorder; or
ii
secure the provision of such facilities or assistance for such persons.
Ss. 25-27 restricted (5.10.2005) by The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2078), arts. 1(1), 14(1)
S. 27 in force at 5.10.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (as substituted (1.7.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/375, art. 2 and as amended (22.9.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/459, art. 2)
Ss. 25-27 excluded (1.4.2015) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), s. 127(1), Sch. 1 paras. 1(3), 4(3)(b) (with Sch. 1 paras. 8, 14); S.I. 2015/993, art. 2(x)(i) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995)
Ss. 25-27 excluded (6.4.2016) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), s. 127(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(3) (with Sch. 1 paras. 8, 14); S.I. 2016/464, art. 2(c)