New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 186

186 Apprehension of interstate persons absent without leave or in breach of corresponding orders

(cf 1990 Act, s 286P)

(1) A person who is the subject of a warrant or an order or other document recognised in this State, or who is otherwise liable to be apprehended, under a provision of a corresponding law under which the person may be apprehended and taken to a mental health facility may be apprehended at any time:

(a) by a police officer, or

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

(2) On being apprehended the person may be conveyed to and detained in a mental health facility in this State or the other State (if this is permitted by or under a provision of a corresponding law of the other State).

(3) This Act applies to a person conveyed to and detained in a mental health facility under this section as if the person had been taken to and detained in a mental health facility under Part 2 of Chapter 3.