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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 (NO. 26 OF 2014) - SECT 260

Compliance notice

    (1)     The Commissioner may serve a compliance notice on a mental health service provider if he or she is satisfied that—

        (a)     the mental health service provider has not complied with an undertaking given under section 243; or

        (b)     after conducting an investigation under Division 4, the mental health service provider has acted or engaged in a practice in contravention of this Act or the regulations; or

        (c)     the mental health service provider has—

              (i)     acknowledged that the mental health service provider has acted or engaged in a practice in contravention of this Act or the regulations; and

              (ii)     not given an undertaking under section 243.

    (2)     A compliance notice may—

        (a)     specify the action to be taken by a mental health service provider for the purpose of ensuring compliance with an undertaking given under section 243 or compliance with this Act and the regulations; and

        (b)     specify the time within which the action referred to in paragraph (a) is to be taken; and

        (c)     require the mental health service provider to report to the Commissioner within a specified time after having taken the action referred to in paragraph (a).

    (3)     The Commissioner may extend the period specified in a compliance notice for taking specified action by a mental health service provider.



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