Overview of the Act
The purpose of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 is to reform the process under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 ("MCA") for authorising arrangements enabling the care or treatment of people who lack capacity to consent to the arrangements, which give rise to a deprivation of their liberty.
	The Act amends the MCA. In particular it inserts a new Schedule AA1. The Act is based on a Law Commission draft Bill published as part of its report Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty (2017).1