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MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) ACT 1994 - SECT 48D

Recognition of interstate laws and orders

    (1)     The regulations may declare that a specified law of another State relating to mental health is a corresponding law for this part.

    (2)     The regulations may declare that a specified class of persons, being persons who under a corresponding law are required to be detained at a hospital or other facility or in the custody of a person, are interstate custodial patients for this part.

    (3)     The regulations may declare that a class of interstate custodial patients corresponds to 1 of the following:

        (a)     persons being detained under section 38, with the detention having commenced at a specified time;

        (b)     persons being detained under section 41, with the detention having commenced at a specified time;

        (c)     persons subject to a specified custody order that was made at a specified time.

    (4)     The regulations may declare that a specified class of orders made under a corresponding law, being orders which require the treatment of a person but not the holding of the person in custody, are interstate non-custodial orders for this part.



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