Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

REMAND CENTRES ACT 1976 (REPEALED) - SECT 14

    (1)     Where a medical officer or a doctor considers it necessary that a detainee be removed from a remand centre to receive medical treatment in a hospital or from a doctor, he or she shall notify the superintendent in writing of the fact and of the hospital to which, or doctor to whom, the detainee should, in the opinion of the medical officer, be removed.

    (2)     Subject to subsection (3), the superintendent shall comply with a notification of a medical officer or a doctor given under subsection (1).

    (3)     Where the Minister is of the opinion that it would be prejudicial to the security of the remand centre or of the detainee to comply with a notification of a medical officer or a doctor given under subsection (1), the Minister shall direct the superintendent not to comply with the notification.

    (4)     Where the Minister gives a direction under subsection (3), the Minister shall also direct the superintendent to provide all possible medical treatment at the remand centre for the detainee.

    (5)     Where—

        (a)     the superintendent is of the opinion that a detainee is in need of immediate medical treatment in a hospital; and

        (b)     no medical officer or doctor is available to give a notification under subsection (1);

the superintendent shall cause the detainee to be removed to a hospital.