New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT FORENSIC PROVISIONS ACT 2020 - SECT 119

119 Retaking of escapees

(1) A forensic patient or correctional patient who escapes from a mental health facility or other place may be apprehended at any time by any of the following persons--

(a) the medical superintendent of the mental health facility or any other suitably qualified person employed in the mental health facility who is authorised to do so by the medical superintendent,

(b) a police officer,

(c) a person authorised by the Secretary or the medical superintendent,

(d) a person assisting a person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(2) On being apprehended, the patient is to be conveyed to and detained in the mental health facility or other place from which the patient escaped.

(3) This section does not affect any power of any other person to apprehend a person under the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 .