Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2015 - SECT 266

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     an authorised person exercises a power under section 263 or section 264 in relation to a person (the subject person ); and

        (b)     in the course of exercising the power the authorised person—

              (i)     restrains, involuntary secludes or forcibly gives medication to the subject person; or

              (ii)     becomes aware of anything else that may have an adverse effect on the subject person's physical or mental health; and

        (c)     the subject person is taken to a facility.

    (2)     The authorised person must give a report about the matter mentioned in subsection (1) (b) to the person in charge of the facility.

    (3)     The person in charge of the facility must—

        (a)     enter the report in the subject person's record; and

        (b)     if the facility is a community care facility or mental health facility—keep a register of any restraint, involuntary seclusion or forcible giving of medication included in the report.

    (4)     In this section:

    "facility" means a community care facility, mental health facility and an interstate facility.

    "interstate facility" means an interstate community care facility and an interstate mental health facility under chapter 15 (Interstate application of mental health laws).