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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 76
Notification of mental health inquiries
76 Notification of mental health inquiries
(1) An authorised medical officer must notify an assessable person detained in
the mental health facility that-- (a) a mental health inquiry will be held
about the person, and
(b) all reasonably practicable steps will be taken to
give notice of the inquiry to any designated carer and the
principal care provider of the person (if the principal care provider is not a
designated carer).
(2) The notice is to be given when the
authorised medical officer becomes aware that the person is an
assessable person.
(3) The authorised medical officer must, in accordance
with the regulations, take all reasonably practicable steps to give notice to
any designated carer and the principal care provider (if the
principal care provider is not a designated carer) of an assessable person of
a proposed mental health inquiry.
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