MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 356
Responsibility for person
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 356
Responsibility for person
356 Responsibility for person
(1) If the responsibility for a person is
transferred, under division 2 or 3 , from a service to another service, the
responsibility for the person’s treatment and care under the person’s
order or authority is transferred from the administrator of the first service
to the administrator of the second service.
(2) An order or authority to
which the person is subject, under this Act or the Forensic Disability Act ,
is otherwise affected by the transfer only to the extent this Act or the
Forensic Disability Act expressly provides.
(3) In this section—
"service" means an authorised mental health service or the forensic disability
service.
