Mental Treatment Act 1930
1930 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Mental Treatment Act 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 23) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom permitting voluntary admission to, and outpatient treatment within, psychiatric hospitals. It also replaced the term "asylum" with "mental hospital".
Subsequent developments
The whole act was repealed by section 149(2) of, and part I of the eighth schedule to, Mental Health Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 72), which came into force on 1 November 1960.
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Text of the Mental Treatment Act 1930 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as 1930 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6817443. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1959 and 1960.
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