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1985 No. 149
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Isles of Scilly (Mental Health) Order 1985
Made
11th February 1985
Laid before Parliament
19th February 1985
Coming into Operation
12th March 1985
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 130(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:-
Citation and commencement
1. This order may be cited as the Isles of Scilly (Mental Health) Order 1985 and shall come into operation on 12th March 1985.
Extension of the Mental Health Act 1983 to the Isles of Scilly
2. The Mental Health Act 1983 shall extend to the Isles of Scilly with the modification that the expression "local social services authority" in that Act shall, in relation to those Isles, mean
Revocation
3. The Isles of Scilly (Mental Health) Order 1962 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Glenarthur
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health and Social Security
11th February 1985
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This order extends the Mental Health Act 1983 to the Isles of Scilly, subject to modification relating to the identification of the local social services authority, and revokes the order extending to those Isles legislation now repealed.
section 130(4) was extended by the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20), section 149(4).