New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (FORENSIC PROVISIONS) ACT 1990 - SECT 49

49 Tribunal may grant leave

(1) The Tribunal may make an order allowing a forensic patient to be absent from a mental health facility, correctional centre or other place for such period and subject to such terms and conditions, if any, as the Tribunal thinks fit.

(2) An order may be made on the application of the patient or on the motion of the Tribunal.

(3) The Tribunal must not make an order allowing a forensic patient to be absent from a mental health facility, correctional centre or other place unless it is satisfied, on the evidence available to it, that the safety of the patient or any member of the public will not be seriously endangered if the leave of absence is granted.

(4) This section does not prevent leave of absence being granted to a forensic patient detained in a correctional centre under any other Act or law.

(5) The section has effect despite the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 .