MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 85 Administration of excessive or inappropriate drugs

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 85

85 Administration of excessive or inappropriate drugs

(cf 1990 Act, s 198)

A medical practitioner must not, in relation to any mental illness or mental condition or suspected mental illness or mental condition, administer, or cause to be administered to a person a drug or drugs in a dosage that, having regard to professional standards, is excessive or inappropriate.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.