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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 128

128 .         Order to attend if non-compliance continues

        (1)         This section applies if, having given the involuntary community patient notice of the breach under section 127(2)(b), the supervising psychiatrist is not satisfied that the patient is complying with the community treatment order.

        (2)         The supervising psychiatrist may make an order (an order to attend ) requiring the involuntary community patient to attend at the time and place specified in the order to be provided with treatment.

        (3)         The order to attend must include a warning that, if the involuntary community patient does not comply with the order, a transport order authorising the patient’s apprehension and transport to the place specified in the order to attend may be made.

        (4)         The order to attend must be in the approved form and must include the following —

            (a)         the date and time when it is made;

            (b)         the reasons for making it;

            (c)         the time and place referred to in subsection (2);

            (d)         the warning referred to in subsection (3);

            (e)         the name, qualifications and signature of the supervising psychiatrist.

        (5)         The supervising psychiatrist must, as soon as practicable, file the order to attend and give a copy to the involuntary community patient.



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