Queensland Numbered Acts

FORENSIC DISABILITY ACT 2011 No. 13 - SECT 117

(1) This section applies if, under this Act, a person (the authorised person) is—

(a) taking a forensic disability client—

(i) to the forensic disability service; or

(ii) to an authorised mental health service; or

(iii) to a place of custody; or

(iv) to appear before a court; or

(b) accompanying a forensic disability client while the client is undertaking limited community treatment; or

(c) caring for a forensic disability client during the client's absence from the forensic disability service under a temporary absence approval; or

(d) accompanying a forensic disability client at an authorised mental health service while the client is awaiting admission to that service under a transfer order.

(2) For this section, while the authorised person is acting as mentioned in subsection (1), the client is in the authorised person's charge.

(3) The authorised person must not wilfully allow the client to abscond from the authorised person's charge.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(4) A person must not knowingly help the client to abscond from the authorised person's charge.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.