New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 79

79 Discharge and other planning

(1) An authorised medical officer of a mental health facility must take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that a patient or person detained in the facility, and the primary carer of the patient or person, are consulted in relation to planning the patient’s or person’s discharge and any subsequent treatment or other action considered in relation to the patient or person.

(2) In planning the discharge of any such patient or person, and any subsequent treatment or other action considered in relation to the patient or person, the authorised medical officer must take all reasonably practicable steps to consult with agencies involved in providing relevant services to the patient or person, any primary carer of the patient or person and any dependent children or other dependants of the patient or person.

(3) An authorised medical officer of a mental health facility must take all reasonably practicable steps to provide any such patient or person who is discharged from the facility, and the patient’s or person’s primary carer, with appropriate information as to follow-up care.