New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 190

190 Act does not limit or affect other powers

(1) Nothing in this Act or the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 limits or affects any power conferred on a police officer or any other person by or under any other law with respect to stopping, searching or detaining a person (whether or not a patient) or taking any such person to any place.

(2) Nothing in this Act or the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 prevents an authorised medical officer from taking any action that the officer thinks fit to protect a patient or person detained in a mental health facility, or any other person in a mental health facility, from serious physical harm.