MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 193 Amendment of certain documents

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 193

193 Amendment of certain documents

(cf 1990 Act, s 296)

(1) A document by virtue of which a person is admitted to a mental health facility (whether under this or any other Act) and that is incorrect or defective in any particular may be amended by the person who signed the document--

(a) within 28 days after the admission of the person, and

(b) with the approval of the authorised medical officer.

(2) A document that is amended in accordance with this section is taken to have had effect in its amended form on and from its original date.

(3) If an incorrect or defective document is not amended in accordance with this section, the authorised medical officer--

(a) may order the discharge of the person admitted to the mental health facility by virtue of the document, or

(b) may do such things as are necessary to obtain a document in substitution for that document.

(4) A document obtained in substitution for another document is to be taken to have had effect as if it had come into existence on the date on which the document for which it is substituted came into or purported to come into existence.