Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PERIODIC DETENTION ACT 1995 (REPEALED) - SECT 52

    (1)     A manager may arrange for a medical practitioner to examine a detainee subject to the detainee consenting to such examination.

    (2)     Where a medical practitioner considers it necessary that a detainee be removed from a detention centre, or other place at which the detainee has been directed to work, to receive medical treatment in a hospital or from a medical practitioner, he or she shall notify the manager of the centre in writing of the fact and of the hospital to which, or the medical practitioner to whom, the detainee should, in the opinion of the firstmentioned medical practitioner, be removed.

    (3)     Where—

        (a)     a manager is of the opinion that a detainee is in need of immediate medical treatment in a hospital; and

        (b)     no medical practitioner is available to give a notification under subsection (2);

the manager shall cause the detainee to be removed to a hospital.

    (4)     Where, during a detention period, a detainee is removed under this section for the purposes of receiving medical treatment, the whole or part of that detention period during which the detainee is away for that purpose shall be taken to be served by the detainee as part of that sentence.