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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.
(2) In these regulations the “principal Regulations” means the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Regulations 1983.
2 
In paragraph (4) of regulation 4 (procedure for and record of hospital admissions) for the words “Form 15” there shall be substituted the words “Form 14”.
3 
The Schedule to the principal Regulations (Forms for use in connection with compulsory admission to hospital, guardianship and consent to treatment) shall be amended by the substitution of Forms 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, and 30 by the forms respectively so numbered and set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health,
John Bowis
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Health
4th March 1996
SCHEDULE
Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 1
Regulations 4—11, 15 and 16

FORM 2
Regulation 4(1)(a)(ii)
FORM 3
Regulation 4(1)(b)(i)
FORM 4
Regulation 4(1)(b)(ii)
FORM 7
Regulation 4(1)(d)
FORM 9
Regulation 4(1)(e)(ii)
FORM 10
Regulation 4(1)(f)(i)
FORM 11
Regulation 4(1)(f)(ii)
FORM 12
Regulation 4(1)(g)
FORM 14
Regulation 4(3)
FORM 15
Regulations 5(4)
FORM 21
Regulation 5(3)
FORM 22
Regulation 6(a)
FORM 24
Regulation 7(2)
FORM 28
Regulation 8(3)(b)(i)
FORM 29
Regulation 84(2)(b)(ii)
FORM 30
Regulation 10(1) and (3)