| Description | Material generated by the British Psychological Society's (BPS) Professional Affairs Board (PAB) concerning the Mental Health Act (Amendment) 1983.
Details are as follows:
1-Box file of correspondence, reprints, reports and other material including:
Typed correspondence from Bernard Kat (Chair DCP) and others concerning the Mental Health Amendment Bill, 1981 and 1982
'Draft Guidelines for Approval of Social Workers Under The Proposed Mental Health (Amendment) Act-Working Party Draft for Consultation-December 1981
Typed correspondence from Colin V. Newman, BPS Scientific and Professional Secretary to Mr Clive Bennett, Clerk to the Committee on the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill (Lords) concerning written submission of views and proposals from the BPS concerning the amendment bill, 1982
Typed comments on the Mental Health Amendment Bill from The Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People (CMH), 1982
Typed letter from Bernard Kat (Chair DCP) to Dr F. M. McPherson (Chair PAB) enclosing a printed document entitled 'Evidence of the British Psychological Society to the Special Standing Committee on the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill', March 1982
Typed BPS internal memo concerning a Bernard Kat telephone call, April 1982
Photocopy of a typed letter from Bernard Kat to Stan Thorne MP, House of Commons enclosing typed BPS proposals for amendments to the Bill, May 1982
Typed letter from Derek Thomas, Northumberland Area Psychology Services to Lord Elton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, DHSS enclosing a typed document entitled 'Notes prepared for Meeting between Lord Elton and a Delegation from The British Psychological Society, (Derek Thomas, Peter Mittler, David Hawkes and Bernard Kat), March 1982
Photocopied extract from Hansard, House of Commons, Special Standing Committee, containing the BPS' written and oral evidence to the committee, May 1982
Photocopy of a typed letter fron Bernard Kat to Kenneth Clarke MP, Minister for Health with the BPS' reactions to the Government's proposals, June 1982
Photocopy of a typed letter fron Bernard Kat to Dr Alan Sippert, DHSS concerning some aspects of the Mental Health Bill, September 1982
Typescript document by Bernard Kat prepared for DCP Newsletter entitled 'Mental Health (Amendment) Bill', (undated) included are other documents including published work, 1982
Final version of a typed paper by Bernard Kat entitled 'Representing Psychology: The Case of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill, a revised version of a paper given at a day conference organised by the DCLP at Wolfson College, 1st October 1982
Copy typescript document by Bernard Kat entitled 'A New Era', paper given at a one day conference on the Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 organised by MIND at the Barbican Conference Centre, 29th November 1982
Photocopy of a draft Statutory Instruments 1983 No. Mental Health, The Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and consent to Treatment) Regulations 1983
Photocopy of a typescript document by the DHSS (explanatory memorandum) on the Draft Mental Heath Act regulations, 1983
Photocopy of comments from the PAB to the DHSS concerning the Draft Mental Health Act regulations, 1983
Photocopy of a typescript document entitled 'Mental Health Review Tribunal Rules 1983', Lord Chancellor's Department, 1983
Photocopy of a draft Statutory Instruments 1983 No. National Health Service, England and Wales, The Mental Health Act Commission (Establishment and Constitution), Order 1983
Letters from DHSS to BPS concerning Draft order and Regulations: Mental Health Act Commission, 1983
Various typed correspondence concerning the Explanatory Memorandum on the consolidated Mental Health Act 1983, 1983
Various forms and correspondence concerning Mental Health Act 1983: Patients Leaflets, 1983
Various typed correspondence and material concerning The Mental Health Act 1983 Implementation of Sections 35, 36 and 38, May 1984
1-published booklet entitled Mental Health Bill [H.L.], (HMSO), 1983
1-Hansard, Volume 20, No.82, Monday 22 March 1982, includes handwritten letter from Bernard Kat to Colin V. Newman (undated)
1- File folder of documents including:
Various typed correspondence concerning nominations and appointments to the the Mental Health Act Commission, 1983 |
| AdminHistory | The Mental Health Act 1983 was formally approved on 9 May 1983 and came into effect on 30 September that year. It brought into law 'sectioning' where by people with a diagnosed mental disorder could be detained and have their disorder assessed or treated against their wishes.
It was amended firstly in 1995, again in 2001 (via remedial order under the Human Rights Act 1998), and once more in 2007. |