New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 76

76 Notification of mental health inquiries

(1) An authorised medical officer must notify an assessable person detained in the mental health facility that:

(a) a mental health inquiry will be held about the person, and

(b) all reasonably practicable steps will be taken to give notice of the inquiry to the person’s primary carer.

(2) The notice is to be given when the authorised medical officer becomes aware that the person is an assessable person.

(3) The authorised medical officer must, in accordance with the regulations, take all reasonably practicable steps to give notice to the primary carer of an assessable person of a proposed mental health inquiry.