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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 340

340 .         Director to stop if other proceedings begun

        (1)         The Director must stop investigating or otherwise dealing with a complaint to the extent that it relates to an issue that the Director becomes aware is being dealt with —

            (a)         under another provision of this Act; or

            (b)         under another written law; or

            (c)         under a law of the Commonwealth; or

            (d)         in a court.

        (2)         The Director must, on or within 14 days after the day on which the Director stops dealing with an issue under subsection (1), give written notice of that fact to —

            (a)         the complainant; and

            (b)         the respondent.

        (3)         The Director may resume dealing with an issue that the Director stopped dealing with under subsection (1) if the Director becomes aware that the issue —

            (a)         is no longer being dealt with under that other provision or law or by that court; but

            (b)         has not been resolved.



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