Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

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

    (1)     A person who may be taken to and detained in a hospital or other facility in another State under a corresponding law of that State may instead be taken to and detained in an approved health facility in the ACT.

    (2)     A person may be taken to an approved health facility in the ACT under this section by—

        (a)     a person who is authorised under section 37 to apprehend a person and take the person to an approved health facility, if this is permitted by or under a law of the other State; or

        (b)     any other person who is authorised to do so by the regulations or under a provision of a corresponding law of the other State.

    (3)     The regulations may provide for or with respect to—

        (a)     the handing over of custody of a person referred to in subsection (1) to persons in the ACT; and

        (b)     the persons (including interstate persons) who may take such a person to an approved health facility in the ACT under this section; and

        (c)     the health facilities to which a person may be taken under this section.