You are here > Home > Your Rights > Rights of People Detained Under the Mental Health Act
The Rights of People Detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
The Mental Health Act 1983 (the MHA) provides for the circumstances in which individuals, who are considered to have a ‘mental disorder’, may be detained and compulsorily treated for their mental disorder in hospital. This chapter considers your rights under this legislation, covering the following areas:
~ The Definition of Mental Disorder
~ Informal Admission to hospital
~ Compulsory Admission to hospital
~ The Nearest Relative
~ Compulsory Treatment Under the Mental Health Act
~ Discharge from Hospital
~ Rights in Hospital
~ Powers in the Community
~ Review of the Mental Health Act 1983
~ Further Information
| 
