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  Mental Health Bill [HL] - Exclusions from the Act
  
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  <p>The mental health bill is largely being used to amend the <a href="http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?activeTextDocId=1729080">1983 Mental Health Act</a>. This is therefore an amendment to a bill to amend that Act.</p>
  
  <p>As it stood before this amendment the Bill would remove the ban on forced detention ("sectioning") for "promiscuity or other immoral conduct, sexual deviancy"</p>
  
  <p>This amendment added exclusions to dention on the grounds of </p>
  <ul>
  <li>Promiscuity or other immoral conduct, sexual deviancy</li>
  <li>Cultural, religious or political beliefs</li>
  <li>Cultural, religious or political beliefs</li>
  <li>Commission, or likely commission, of illegal or disorderly acts</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The crucial one is probably the last one.</p>
  <p>Of course these are not barriers to the detention of someone with another reason for detention, simply that detention cannot be <em>solely</em> on these grounds. The exclusion of alcohol or drug dependency also remains.</p>
  
  <p>The Lords voted to add these provisions to the Bill</p>
  
  <p>Their Lordships divided: Contents, 216; Not-Contents, 128.</p>
  
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