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It introduced changes to develop community-based mental health services, involvement of service users and unpaid carers in decisions concerning treatment, and respect for the human rights of people with mental disorders.

The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 applies to people who have a "mental disorder" - this is defined under the Act and includes any mental illness, personality disorder or learning disability (as per s328). Most of the time, when people become unwell, they understand that they need treatment.

The 2015 Act extends the provisions in the 2003 Act which require provision of support with communication to certain other medical examinations. It amends the provisions in the 2003 Act related to providing services and accommodation to mothers with post-natal depression to mothers with any mental disorder.

06 Under sections 297 and 298 of the Act, the police may take a person to a place of safety if that person is in a public place and appears to be mentally disordered and in immediate need of care or treatment and where they consider that it would be in the interests of the person or necessary for the protection of any ...

The aim of the Review is to improve the rights and protections of people affected by the mental health, incapacity or adult support and protection laws because they have, or used to have, a mental disorder.