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Mental Health Act 2007

Section 17: Regulations as to approvals in relation to England and Wales

63.Section 17 inserts a new section 142A into the 1983 Act, which gives the Secretary of State, jointly with Welsh Ministers, the power to set out in regulations the circumstances in which approval in England under section 12 of the 1983 Act and approval as an AC should be considered to mean approval in Wales as well, and vice versa.

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