New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 21

21 Police assistance

(1) A police officer to whose notice a police assistance endorsement on a mental health certificate, or a request for assistance by an ambulance officer under this Division, is brought must, if practicable--

(a) apprehend and take or assist in taking the person the subject of the certificate or request to a declared mental health facility, or

(b) cause or make arrangements for some other police officer to do so.

(2) A police officer may enter premises to apprehend a person under this section, and may apprehend any such person, without a warrant and may exercise any powers conferred by section 81 on a person who is authorised under that section to take a person to a mental health facility or another health facility.

Note : Section 81 sets out the persons who may take a person to a mental health facility and their powers when doing so.