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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 8

Criteria for involuntary admission etc as mentally ill person or mentally disordered person

8 Criteria for involuntary admission etc as mentally ill person or mentally disordered person

A person is a mentally ill person or a mentally disordered person for the purpose of:

(a) the involuntary admission of the person to a hospital or the detention of the person in a hospital under this Act, or
(b) determining whether the person should be subject to a community treatment order or be detained or continue to be detained involuntarily in a hospital or other place,
if, and only if, the person satisfies the relevant criteria set out in this Chapter.



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