PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 141 Directions about orders or authorisations

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 141

    (1)     The Chief Health Officer may give directions to a hospital, multi purpose service, proprietor, Director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine or an authorised senior medical officer referred to in section 137(1) or 137(2) about the following—

        (a)     the requirements for persons suitable to be authorised as a senior medical officer for the purposes of making orders or authorisations under this Division;

        (b)     the process for authorising a person to be a senior medical officer for the purposes of making orders or authorisations under this Division;

        (c)     the information to be provided by the hospital, multi purpose service, proprietor or the Director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine to the authorised senior medical officer;

        (d)     the matters that an authorised senior medical officer must take into account in deciding whether to make an order or authorisation under this Division;

        (e)     the procedures to be followed by an authorised senior medical officer before or after making an order or authorisation under this Division;

        (f)     the requirements to be complied with by an authorised senior medical officer about the keeping of records and reporting to the hospital, multi purpose service, proprietor, Director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine or Chief Health Officer;

        (g)     the provision of counselling or information required by section 138.

    (2)     The hospital, multi purpose service, proprietor, Director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine or authorised senior medical officer must comply with any direction given by the Chief Health Officer under this section.