Version Superseded: 01/10/1997
Point in time view as at 01/04/1996. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Mental Health Act 1983, Section 117 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)This section applies to persons who are detained under section 3 above, or admitted to a hospital in pursuance of a hospital order made under section 37 above, or transferred to a hospital in pursuance of a transfer direction made under section 47 or 48 above, and then cease to be detained and [F1(whether or not immediately after so ceasing)] leave hospital.
(2)It shall be the duty of the [F2Health Authority] and of the local social services authority to provide, in co-operation with relevant voluntary agencies, after-care services for any person to whom this section applies until such time as the [F2Health Authority] and the local social services authority are satisfied that the person concerned is no longer in need of such services [F3; but they shall not be so satisfied in the case of a patient who is subject to after-care under supervision at any time while he remains so subject.]
[F4(2A)It shall be the duty of the Health Authority to secure that at all times while a patient is subject to after-care under supervision—
(a)a person who is a registered medical practitioner approved for the purposes of section 12 above by the Secretary of State as having special experience in the diagnosis or treatment of mental disorder is in charge of the medical treatment provided for the patient as part of the after-care services provided for him under this section; and
(b)a person professionally concerned with any of the after-care services so provided is supervising him with a view to securing that he receives the after-care services so provided.
(2B)Section 32 above shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of Part II of this Act.]
(3)In this [F5section “the Health Authority” means the Health Authority, and “the local social services authority” means the local social services authority, for the area] in which the person concerned is resident or to which he is sent on discharge by the hospital in which he was detained.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 117(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 52, ss. 1(2), 7(2), Sch. 1 para. 15(2)
F2Words in s. 117(2) substituted (28.6.1995 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8, Sch. 1 Pt. III, para. 107(8)(a)
F3Words in s. 117(2) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 52, ss. 1(2), 7(2), Sch. 1 para. 15(3)
F4S. 117(2A)-(2B) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 52, ss. 1(2), 7(2), Sch. 1 para. 15(4)
F5Words in s. 117(3) substituted (28.6.1995 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8, Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 107(8)(b)
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