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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 157J
Authorised person may transport absent person
157J Authorised person may transport absent person
(1) This section applies if an authorised person is authorised to transport a
person under section 157H (1) (a) .
(2) The authorised person may transport
the person named in the authorisation to the public sector health service
facility stated in the authorisation.
(3) Subsection (4) applies if an
authorised person mentioned in section 157H (1) (a) asks a police officer,
under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 , section 16 , to help
transport the named person. Note— Under section 157H (6) , an authorised
person, other than a police officer, is a public official for the
Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 . Under section 16 of that Act, a
public official may ask a police officer to help the public official perform
the public official’s functions.
(4) The request must— (a) be in the
approved form; and
(b) state the name of the person to be transported; and
(c) state the name of the public sector health service facility to which the
person is to be transported; and
(d) identify the risk the person presents to
himself or herself, the authorised person or police officer, and others; and
(e) state the reasons why the authorised person considers it necessary to ask
the police officer to help transport the person.
(5) Before transporting the
person, the authorised person must— (a) tell the person the authorised
person is detaining the person and transporting the person to the public
sector health service facility stated in the authorisation; and
(b) explain
to the person how taking action under paragraph (a) may affect the person.
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