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MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) ACT 1994 - SECT 22C

Public advocate and lawyer to have access

    (1)     This section applies if a person is admitted to a mental health facility under an assessment order.

    (2)     The public advocate and the person's lawyer are entitled to have access to the person at any time.

    (3)     The person in charge of the facility must, if asked by the public advocate or the person's lawyer, give the reasonable assistance necessary to allow the public advocate or lawyer to have access to the person.



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