New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 28

28 Obligations of examining medical practitioners

(1) An authorised medical officer or other medical practitioner 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 on whose certificate or request a person has been admitted to a mental health facility must not examine the person under section 27.