Safeguards Section 1: Deprivation of liberty: authorisation of arrangements enabling care and treatment
Section 1(4) inserts the new Schedule AA1 into the MCA. This Schedule contains the new administrative scheme for authorising arrangements enabling the care and treatment of persons who lack capacity to consent to those arrangements, which give rise to a deprivation of liberty (referred to in these Notes as the Liberty Protection Safeguards). It will replace Schedules A1 and 1A to the MCA, with those Schedules being repealed under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act. More information on the contents of Schedule AA1 can be found in paragraphs 28-80 of these Notes.
	Section 1(2) amends section 4A of the MCA so as to refer to the new Schedule AA1.
	Subsection (3) inserts a new section 4C, "Carrying out of authorised arrangements giving rise to deprivation of liberty". This provides a person carrying out arrangements that are authorised under Schedule AA1 with a defence to civil and criminal liability in relation to non-negligent acts done while carrying out the authorised arrangements.