Policy paper

Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill: easy read

Plans for a new law about how someone can be ordered to be looked after safely if they cannot make decisions for themselves.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 31 January 2019

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill: easy read

PDF, 3.89 MB, 18 pages

Details

The government wants to make changes to the law called the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

It wants to make changes because the rules are hard to understand and don’t work very well.

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 gives rules about ordering people to be looked after safely if they cannot make decisions for themselves.

Published 31 January 2019