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MENTAL HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT FORENSIC PROVISIONS ACT 2020 - SECT 118
Planning for release and leave
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.
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