New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT FORENSIC PROVISIONS ACT 2020 - SECT 118

118 Planning for release and leave

(1) The authorised medical officer of a mental health facility must, if a person detained in a mental health facility as a forensic patient is to be released or granted leave under this Part, take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that the person and any designated carer or the principal care provider of the person are consulted in relation to planning the person's release or leave and any subsequent treatment or other action considered in relation to the person.

(2) In planning the release of the person and subsequent treatment or other action considered in relation to the person, the authorised medical officer must take all reasonably practicable steps to consult with agencies involved in providing relevant services to the person, any designated carer or the principal care provider of the person and any dependent children or other dependants of the person.

(3) The authorised medical officer must take all reasonably practicable steps to provide a person who is released or given leave of absence from the mental health facility with appropriate information as to follow-up care.

(4) The Commissioner of Corrective Services and the chief executive of Youth Justice NSW within the Department of Communities and Justice must provide support to an authorised medical officer for the purposes of this section.