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MENTAL HEALTH (REVIEW) AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO 34 OF 2016) - SECT 21

MENTAL HEALTH (REVIEW) AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO 34 OF 2016) - SECT 21

21—Amendment of section 25—Level 2 inpatient treatment orders

        (1)         Section 25(2)(b)—delete "including" and substitute:

whether physical or mental, and including

        (2)         Section 25(2)—after paragraph (b) insert:

            (ba)         the person has impaired decision-making capacity relating to appropriate treatment of the person's mental illness; and

        (3)         Section 25(5)—delete "Minister" and substitute:

Chief Psychiatrist

        (4)         Section 25(6)—delete "A" and substitute:

Subject to subsection (7), a

        (5)         Section 25—after subsection (6) insert:

        (7)         A level 2 inpatient treatment order may, once only, be extended by a psychiatrist or authorised medical practitioner (other than the psychiatrist or authorised medical practitioner who made the order) who has examined the patient to whom the order applies and, in that case, the order, unless earlier revoked, will expire at a time fixed in the extended order (which must be 2 pm on a business day not later than 42 days from the day on which the order would, had it not been extended, have expired).

        (6)         Section 25(9)—delete "written notice in the form approved by the Minister" and substitute:

notice in the form approved by the Chief Psychiatrist