New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT FORENSIC PROVISIONS ACT 2020 - SECT 19

19 Orders Magistrate may make

A Magistrate may make one or more of the following orders--

(a) an order that the defendant be taken to, and detained in, a mental health facility for assessment,

(b) an order that the defendant be taken to, and detained in, a mental health facility for assessment and that, if the defendant is found on assessment at the mental health facility not to be a mentally ill person or mentally disordered person, the defendant be brought back before a Magistrate or an authorised justice as soon as practicable unless granted bail by a police officer at that facility,

(c) an order for the discharge of the defendant, unconditionally or subject to conditions, into the care of a responsible person.