Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) ACT 1994 (REPEALED) - SECT 139CK

    (1)     An interstate custodial patient may be transferred to an approved health facility or an approved mental health facility in the ACT, if the transfer is authorised under a provision of a corresponding law of the other State and accepted by the person in charge of the facility.

    (2)     An interstate custodial patient may be taken to a facility in the ACT under this section by a person who is authorised to do so by the regulations or under a provision of a corresponding law of the other State.

    (3)     The person in charge of an approved health facility or an approved mental health facility shall not accept the transfer of an interstate custodial patient to the facility unless the person in charge is satisfied that the patient could reasonably be detained under this Act.

    (4)     A regulation may make provision in relation to the following:

        (a)     the procedures for authorising and arranging the receipt of an interstate custodial patient under this section;

        (b)     a person (including an interstate person) who may take an interstate custodial patient to a facility in the ACT under this section;

        (c)     receiving custody of an interstate custodial patient by a person in the ACT;

        (d)     the period within which an interstate custodial patient must be reviewed by the ACAT after being transferred to a facility in the ACT.