Mental Treatment Act 1930

The Mental Treatment Act 1930 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permitted voluntary admission to, and outpatient treatment within, psychiatric hospitals. [1][2]

It also replaced the term "asylum" with "mental hospital".[2]

References

  1. ^ "The history of mental health and community care - key dates". Mind. http://www.mind.org.uk/help/research_and_policy/the_history_of_mental_health_and_community_care-key_dates. Retrieved 2010-07-31. 
  2. ^ a b "Mental Health Act Reform". http://www.uea.ac.uk/~wp276/MENTAL%20HEALTH%20ACT%20REFORM.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-31. 

See also

Mental health law in the United Kingdom
18th century
19th century
Criminal Lunatics Act 1800 · County Asylums Act 1808 · Marriage of Lunatics Act 1811 · Scottish Madhouses Act 1815 · Criminal Lunatics Amendment Act 1815 · Irish Lunatic Asylums for the Poor Act 1817 · Pauper Lunatics Act 1819 · County Asylums Act 1828 · Madhouses Act 1828 · Chancery Lunatics Property Act 1828 · Madhouses Act 1832 · County Asylums Act 1845 · Lunacy Act 1845 · Idiots Act 1886 · Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886
20th century
Mental Treatment Act 1930 · Mental Health Act 1959 · Mental Health Act 1983 · Mental Capacity Act 2005 · Mental Health Act 2007
Public bodies
Other