New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 178

178 Application of Acts to persons brought to mental health facility from outside this State

(cf 1990 Act, s 286J)

(1) This Act applies to a person who is a civil patient who is taken to and detained in a mental health facility under this Division in the same way as it applies to a person taken to and detained in a mental health facility under Part 2 of Chapter 3.

(2) This Act and the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 apply to a person (other than a civil patient) who is taken to and detained in a mental health facility under this Division in the same way as they apply to a person detained in a mental health facility as a forensic patient.