HC Deb 03 December 1997 vol 302 c395

Mr. John Gunnell accordingly presented a Bill to amend the Mental Health Act 1983 to prescribe the circumstances in which electro-convulsive therapy may be used without the patient's consent; to establish who may administer it; to lay down requirements governing the apparatus with which it is administered; and for related purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 30 January, and to be printed [Bill 94].