Queensland Numbered Acts

FORENSIC DISABILITY ACT 2011 No. 13 - SECT 40

(1) This section applies if—

(a) an action is done or something is brought into existence for a matter in relation to a forensic disability client in compliance with an applied provision; and

(b) before the matter ends, the client is transferred to an authorised mental health service under a transfer order.

(2) On the client's admission to the authorised mental health service under the transfer order—

(a) the previous action or thing is taken to have been done or brought into existence for a matter in relation to the client, as a patient, in compliance with the provision of the Mental Health Act that is the applied provision; and

(b) if the previous thing is a document, it is to be read, or continued in force, with the changes necessary—

(i) to make it consistent with that Act; and

(ii) to adapt its operation to that Act.

(3) The previous action or thing may be amended, repealed or revoked under the Mental Health Act.