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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 (NO. 26 OF 2014) - SECT 395

Leave of absence for security patients granted under section 51 of 1986 Act

    (1)     On and after 1 July 2014, an application for leave of absence for a security patient that, immediately before that day, is made under section 51 of the 1986 Act but not granted or refused to be granted, is taken to be an application for monitored leave made under section 285 of the 2014 Act.

    (2)     On and after 1 July 2014, a leave of absence for a security patient that is granted immediately before that day under section 51 of the 1986 Act is taken to be a monitored leave granted under section 285 of the 2014 Act.

    (3)     A monitored leave under section 285 of the 2014 Act that is referred to in subsection (1) is taken—

        (a)     to have started on the day that the leave of absence granted under the 1986 Act started and to end on the day that the leave of absence granted under the 1986 Act would have ended; and

        (b)     to be subject to the same conditions to which the leave of absence granted under the 1986 Act is subject.



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