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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 147

Annual report

147 Annual report

(cf 1990 Act, s 261)

(1) As soon as practicable after 1 September, but on or before 1 December, in each year, the President must prepare and forward to the Minister a report as to the exercise by the Tribunal of its functions.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the report is to include the following matters relating to persons taken to mental health facilities under Part 2 of Chapter 3--
(a) the number of persons so taken and the provisions of this Act under which they were so taken,
(b) the number of persons detained as mentally ill persons or mentally disordered persons,
(c) the number of persons in respect of whom a mental health inquiry was held,
(d) the number of persons detained as involuntary patients.
(3) The report is also to include any matters the Minister may direct or that are prescribed by the regulations.
(4) The Minister must lay the report, or cause it to be laid, before each House of Parliament as soon as practicable after receiving the report.
(5) Any report required to be made under this section may be included in the annual reporting information prepared for the Ministry of Health under the Government Sector Finance Act 2018 .



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