New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 182

182 Interstate implementation of New South Wales orders

(1) A mental health facility of another State, or any person who provides services on behalf of any such mental health facility, may treat a person subject to a community treatment order in this State, and exercise any other functions of a mental health facility under this Act or the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990 , for the purposes of implementing and enforcing the community treatment order.

(2) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following matters:

(a) the bodies or places that are taken to be mental health facilities of another State for the purposes of this section,

(b) when the treatment may be given or functions may be exercised under subsection (1),

(c) the effect in this State of a community treatment order being recognised by another State.