Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982

48U.K.In Schedule 1, for Group D there shall be substituted—

GROUP DU.K.
Mentally disordered personsU.K.

A person who suffers or has suffered from mental illness, psychopathic disorder, mental handicap or severe mental handicap and on account of that condition either—

(a)is resident in a hospital or other similar institution ; or

(b)regularly attends for treatment by a medical treatment practitioner.

A person for the time being in guardianship under section 33 of the Mental Health Act 1959.

A person who, under Part VIII of that Act, has been determined by a judge to be incapable, by reason of mental disorder, of managing and administering his property and affairs.

(In this Group—

(a)mental handicap” means a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind (not amounting to severe mental handicap) which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning ;

(b)severe mental handicap” means a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning ;

(c)other expressions are to be construed in accordance with the said Act of 1959.).