New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT FORENSIC PROVISIONS ACT 2020 - SECT 70

70 Treatment, care and detention of patients

(1) The principles set out in section 68 of the Mental Health Act 2007 apply to the administration of this Act with respect to forensic patients and correctional patients.

(2) A forensic patient who is ordered to be detained in a mental health facility should, so far as practicable, be detained in a mental health facility or other facility that is appropriate to the patient's needs and appropriate having regard to the safety of the patient and other persons.