1. These regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Hospital and Guardianship) (Welsh Forms) Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on 1st April, 1971.

2.-(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:-

"the Act" means the Mental Health Act 1959;

"hospital" has the meaning assigned to it by section 147(1) of the Act and includes a mental nursing home;

"mental nursing home" means a home in respect of which the particulars of registration are, for the time being, entered or treated as entered in the separate part of the register kept for the purposes of section 15(1) of the Act;

"principal regulations" means the Mental Health (Hospital and Guardianship) Regulations 1960(1) .

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889. applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

3.-(1) In relation to an application for admission to any hospital in Wales or Monmouthshire, regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall have effect as if it referred, instead of to the forms numbered 1, 2 and 4A in the Schedule to those regulations, to the forms numbered 1, 2 and 4A in the Schedule to these regulations.

(2) The forms numbered 1, 2 and 4A in the Schedule to these regulations may be completed in Welsh or in English or partly in Welsh and partly in English.

SCHEDULE

FORM 1

FORM 2

FORM 4A

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These regulation s prescribe bilingual application forms to be used for the admission of patients into hospitals or mental nursing homes in Wales and Monmouthshire.