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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 668

668 .         Person taken into protective custody (1996 Act s. 195)

        (1)         If, immediately before commencement day, a person had been apprehended under the 1996 Act section 195(1) but no arrangement to have the person examined had been made under section 195(2) of that Act, the person is taken to have been apprehended under section 156(1).

        (2)         If, immediately before commencement day, an arrangement to have a person examined had been made under the 1996 Act section 195(2) but the person had not been examined in accordance with that arrangement, the arrangement is taken to be an arrangement to have the person assessed under section 156(3)(a) and the person can be detained under section 156(3)(b).

        [Section 668 inserted: No. 25 of 2014 s. 9.]



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