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MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2022 - SECT 145

Community or inpatient assessment order

    (1)     A registered medical practitioner or an authorised mental health practitioner who makes an assessment order must determine whether the order is—

        (a)     a community assessment order; or

        (b)     subject to subsection (2), an inpatient assessment order.

    (2)     A registered medical practitioner or an authorised mental health practitioner must not make an inpatient assessment order in respect of a person unless the practitioner is satisfied that the person cannot be assessed in the community.



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