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SCHEDULE 4 Amendments relating to NHS foundation trusts

The Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20)

53 In section 23 (discharge of patients)—

(a) in subsection (3), after “National Health Service trust,” (in both places) there is inserted “NHS foundation trust,”,

(b) in subsection (4), after “trust” (in the first place it occurs) there is inserted “(other than an NHS foundation trust)”,

(c) after subsection (5), there is inserted—

“(6) The powers conferred by this section on any NHS foundation trust may be exercised by any three or more non-executive directors of the board of the trust authorised by the board in that behalf.”