MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 72B Requirement to consider information provided by other persons about patients or detained persons when making detention or discharge decisions

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 72B

72B Requirement to consider information provided by other persons about patients or detained persons when making detention or discharge decisions

An authorised medical officer or other medical practitioner or accredited person who examines an involuntary patient or person detained in a mental health facility for the purposes of determining whether the person is a mentally ill person or a mentally disordered person or whether to discharge the patient or person is to consider any information provided by the following persons, if it is reasonably practicable to do so--

(a) any designated carer, principal care provider, relative or friend of the patient or person,

(b) any medical practitioner or other health professional who has treated the patient or person in relation to a relevant matter,

(c) any person who brought the patient or person to the mental health facility.