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MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) ACT 1994 - SECT 29

Content of psychiatric treatment order

    (1)     A psychiatric treatment order made in relation to a person may state 1 or more of the following:

        (a)     a health facility to which the person may be taken;

        (b)     that the person must do either or both of the following:

              (i)     undergo psychiatric treatment, other than electroconvulsive therapy or psychiatric surgery;

              (ii)     undertake a counselling, training, therapeutic or rehabilitation program;

        (c)     that limits may be imposed on communication between the person and other people.

    (2)     A psychiatric treatment order may not include any requirement mentioned in section 31 (Content of restriction order).

    (3)     A psychiatric treatment order made in relation to a person must include a statement that the person—

        (a)     has the capacity to consent to the order, and consents; or

        (b)     has the capacity to consent to the order, but refuses to do so; or

        (c)     does not have the capacity to consent to the order.



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