Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Period for Appeal) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 5th October 2005.
Specified period
2. The period within which an appeal under section 322(2) (appeal to Court of Session against certain decisions of the Tribunal) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 shall be made is 21 days after whichever of the following dates is applicable:–
(a)the date on which the party was informed of the decision appealed against; or
(b)if the party has requested a copy of the document mentioned in paragraph 13(3) of schedule 2 to that Act within 7 days of being informed of that decision, the date on which the party receives that document.
LEWIS MACDONALD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
18th August 2005