MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 18 Other functions of medical superintendent concerning informal patients

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 18

18 Other functions of medical superintendent concerning informal patients

A medical superintendent may:

(a) discharge an informal patient, or

(b) if, having regard to the condition of an informal patient, the medical superintendent considers it proper to do so, do all such things as may be necessary to cause the patient to be detained in the hospital under Part 2.