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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 25

Detention after transfer from another health facility

25 Detention after transfer from another health facility

(1) A person may be transferred from a health facility to a declared mental health facility and detained in the mental health facility if a medical officer of the health facility, or the authorised medical officer of the mental health facility, considers the person to be a mentally ill person or a mentally disordered person.
(2) Any such person is taken to have been detained in the declared mental health facility under section 19 when the person is transferred to the facility.



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