Mental Health Act 1959

1 Without prejudice to the power of the Minister to give directions under subsection (1) of section twenty-eight of the National Health Service Act, 1946, for defining the extent of the duties of local health authorities under that section, and subject to any directions which may be given by the Minister thereunder, it shall be the duty of every such authority to continue to provide under that section services corresponding (subject to any necessary modifications) with the services which, under any enactment repealed by this Act, were required to be provided by that authority for or for the benefit of persons of unsound mind or mental defectives ; and any proposals in force immediately before the commencement of this Act under section twenty of the said Act of 1946, being proposals with respect to the provision of such services as aforesaid, shall continue in force accordingly until modified by further proposals under the said section twenty.