Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) (NO. 31 OF 1999)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  
   4.      Long title  
   5.      Repeal  
   6.      Interpretation  
   7.      Objectives of Territory  
   8.      Applications by other persons  
   9.      Insertion  
   10.     Assessments to be conducted as soon as practicable  
   11.     Insertion  
   12.     Matters to be taken into account  
   13.     Substitution  
   14.     Duration of orders  
   15.     Power under custodial orders  
   16.     Insertion  
   17.     Review, variation and revocation  
   18.     Apprehension  
   19.     Detention  
   20.     Insertion  
   21.     Examination by doctor  
   22.     Authorisation of involuntary detention  
   23.     Insertion  
   24.     Notification of certain persons about detention  
   25.     Psychiatric examination  
   26.     Treatment during detention  
   27.     Orders for release  
   28.     Duty to release  
   29.     Approved facilities  
   30.     Heading—Part 6  
   31.     Restriction on use  
   32.     Determination of fitness to plead  
   33.     Periodic review of orders for detention  
   34.     Limit on detention  
   35.     Membership  
   36.     Constitution for performance of certain functions  
   37.     Repeal  
   38.     Heading—Part 10  
   39.     Chief Psychiatrist  
   40.     Functions  
   41.     Mental Health Officers  
   42.     Substitution  

   PART 11--OFFICIAL VISITORS

   43.     Interpretation  
   44.     Insertion  
   45.     Insertion  
           “PART 14--SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
   46.     Further amendments of Principal Act  
   47.     Consequential amendments of other Acts  
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2