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MENTAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 4 OF 2023) - SECT 15

Section 29 amended (Subsequent fitness for trial of person subject to treatment order or forensic order)
Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:
(a) by omitting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following subsection:
(1)  If –
(a) a defendant has been found unfit to stand trial and a court has made an order under section 18(2) in respect of the defendant; and
(b) the Chief Psychiatrist is satisfied that the defendant has become fit to stand trial –
the Chief Psychiatrist must inform the Attorney-General, in writing, of that fact.
(b) by omitting from subsection (3) " subsection (1) or (2) " and substituting " subsection (1) " ;
(c) by omitting subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) from subsection (3A)(b) and substituting the following subparagraph:
(iii) the Chief Psychiatrist.



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