CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 20BK Review by Attorney - General

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 20BK

  (1)   Where, under subsection   20BJ(1), a court orders that a person be detained in safe custody in prison or in a hospital, the Attorney - General must, as soon as practicable after the person is so detained, consider (in this section called the initial consideration ) whether or not the person should be released from detention and must, while the person is in detention, reconsider the matter at least once in each period of 6 months after the initial consideration.

  (2)   In considering whether a person should be released from custody the Attorney - General:

  (a)   must obtain and consider:

  (i)   a report from a duly qualified psychiatrist or psychologist; and

  (ii)   a report from another duly qualified medical practitioner; and

  (b)   may obtain and consider such other reports as the Attorney - General considers necessary; and

  (c)   must take into account any representations made to the Attorney - General by the person or on the person's behalf.