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Definition in primary legislation

of

Receiver

from

Mental Capacity Act 2005, Schedule 5, Part 1

Source

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/schedule/5/part/1

Existing receivers

1 (1) This paragraph applies where, immediately before the commencement day, there is a receiver (“R”) for a person (“P”) appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act.

(2) On and after that day—

(a) this Act applies as if R were a deputy appointed for P by the court, but with the functions that R had as receiver immediately before that day, and

(b) a reference in any other enactment to a deputy appointed by the court includes a person appointed as a deputy as a result of paragraph (a).

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