MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 25
Detention after transfer from another health facility
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 25
Detention after transfer from another health facility
25 Detention after transfer from another health facility
(1) A person may be transferred from a health facility to a
declared mental health facility and detained in the mental health facility if
a medical officer of the health facility, or the authorised medical officer of
the mental health facility, considers the person to be a mentally ill person
or a mentally disordered person.
(2) Any such person is taken to have been
detained in the declared mental health facility under section 19 when the
person is transferred to the facility.
