Part 1Amendments to Mental Health Act 1983

Chapter 2Professional roles

Approved clinicians and responsible clinicians

17Regulations as to approvals in relation to England and Wales

After section 142 of the 1983 Act, insert—

142ARegulations as to approvals in relation to England and Wales

The Secretary of State jointly with the Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision as to the circumstances in which—

a

a practitioner approved for the purposes of section 12 above, or

b

a person approved to act as an approved clinician for the purposes of this Act,

approved in relation to England is to be treated, by virtue of his approval, as approved in relation to Wales too, and vice versa.