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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 155

155 .         Return of person if transport order expires or is revoked

        (1)         Subsection (2) applies if a transport order made in respect of a person is revoked because of section 153, or expires, before the person is received into the hospital or other place to which the person was to have been transported under the order.

        (2)         The transport officer or police officer who was responsible for carrying out the transport order must take reasonable steps to ensure the person is taken, at the person’s election —

            (a)         back to the place from which the person was being or was to have been transported; or

            (b)         to a place reasonably nominated by the person.

        (3)         Subsection (2) does not require the person to be taken to a place if to do so poses a serious risk to the safety of the person or another person.



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