Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) If the Mental Health Tribunal makes an order authorising a course of electroconvulsive treatment, the Tribunal must specify in the order—
(a) the duration of the order and the date on which it will expire, which must be no more than 6 months after the date on which the order is made; and
(b) the maximum number of electroconvulsive treatments authorised to be performed over the duration of the order, which must be no more than 12 treatments.
(2) Nothing in this Part requires a course of electroconvulsive treatment to be completed.