Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 209

209 Medical examination or treatment of child held under order

(1) This section applies if a designated medical officer orders that a child be held at a health service facility.

(2) The child may be medically examined or treated at the facility or another facility to which the child is transferred.

(3) Subsection (2) applies even though the child’s parents have not consented to the examination or treatment.

(4) However, subsection (2) is subject to the rights the child has in relation to the examination or treatment, in particular, the charter of rights for a child in care contained in the Child Protection Act 1999 , schedule 1 .

(5) Also, only the examination or treatment reasonable in the circumstances may be carried out.

(6) For the purpose of deciding any liability in relation to the carrying out of the examination or treatment, the consent of the child’s parents to the examination or treatment is taken to have been given.