MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 28
Obligations of examining medical practitioners and accredited persons
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 28
Obligations of examining medical practitioners and accredited persons
28 Obligations of examining medical practitioners and accredited persons
(1) An authorised medical officer or other medical practitioner or
accredited person who examines a person detained in a mental health facility
under this Division may take into account his or her own observations and any
other available evidence that he or she considers reliable and relevant in
forming an opinion as to whether the person is a mentally ill person or a
mentally disordered person.
(2) A medical practitioner or accredited person
on whose certificate or request a person has been admitted to a
mental health facility must not examine the person under section 27 or 27A.
