MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 77 Notification to new involuntary patients of appeal rights

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 77

77 Notification to new involuntary patients of appeal rights

(cf 1990 Act, s 55)

(1) An authorised medical officer of a mental health facility must give, or cause to be given, to a person ordered by the Tribunal after a mental health inquiry to be detained in the facility as an involuntary patient a statement of the rights of appeal conferred on the person as an involuntary patient under this Act.

(1A) An authorised medical officer of a mental health facility must give, or cause to be given, to a person detained in the facility on the order of the Tribunal after a breach of a community treatment order a statement of the rights of appeal conferred on the person under this Act or the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 .

(2) The statement must be given as soon as practicable after the order is made.

(3) The statement is to be in the form approved by the Minister.