MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 178 Application of Acts to persons brought to mental health facility from outside this State
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 178
Application of Acts to persons brought to mental health facility from outside this State178 Application of Acts to persons brought to mental health facility from outside this State
(cf 1990 Act, s 286J)
(1) This Act applies to a person who is a civil patient who is taken to and detained in a mental health facility under this Division in the same way as it applies to a person taken to and detained in a mental health facility under Part 2 of Chapter 3.
(2) This Act and the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 apply to a person (other than a civil patient) who is taken to and detained in a mental health facility under this Division in the same way as they apply to a person detained in a mental health facility as a forensic patient.