1Members of Parliament etc.U.K.

(1)Section 141 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (disqualification of MPs and members of devolved bodies on grounds of mental illness) is repealed.

(2)Any rule of the common law which disqualifies a person from membership of the House of Commons on grounds of mental illness is abolished.

(3)The Schedule (which includes amendments and repeals consequential on subsection (1)) has effect.