New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (FORENSIC PROVISIONS) ACT 1990 - SECT 59

59 Review of persons transferred from correctional centres

(1) The Tribunal must review the case of a person transferred under this Division to a mental health facility from a correctional centre as soon as practicable after the person is so transferred and may make an order as to the person’s continued detention, care or treatment in a mental health facility or correctional centre.

(2) On a review, the Tribunal is to determine whether the person is a mentally ill person who should continue to be detained in a mental health facility.

(3) If a person is transferred under this Division from a correctional centre to a mental health facility, the Tribunal may, at any time, make an order that the person be transferred to a correctional centre.