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MENTAL HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT FORENSIC PROVISIONS ACT 2020 - SECT 78

Mandatory reviews of forensic patients

78 Mandatory reviews of forensic patients

The Tribunal must carry out reviews of forensic patients at the following times--

(a) as soon as practicable after a limiting term is nominated by a court for a forensic patient,
(b) as soon as practicable after a court finds at an inquiry that a defendant is unfit to be tried for an offence and may become fit to be tried for an offence within 12 months and the proceedings are adjourned,
(c) in the case of a person for whom a court enters a special verdict of act proven but not criminally responsible, as soon as practicable after the court enters the verdict,
(d) at intervals of 6 months during the period that a person is a forensic patient,
(e) if a forensic patient is detained in a correctional centre or detention centre and is subject to a community treatment order, no later than 3 months after the community treatment order is made and at least once every 6 months during the term of the order,
(f) as soon as practicable after being requested to carry out a review of a forensic patient by the Minister for Health, the Attorney General and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, the Minister for Counter Terrorism and Corrections or the Secretary,
(g) as soon as practicable after being requested to carry out a review of a forensic patient by the medical superintendent of the mental health facility in which the patient is detained.



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