Review of correctional patient detained at mental health facility
142 Review of correctional patient detained at mental health facility
This section applies to a correctional patient transferred to an approved mental health facility under a transfer direction and detained at the facility for at least 6 months.
The ACAT must review the transfer—
at the end of each 12-month period for which the correctional patient is detained at the approved mental health facility; and
at any other time on request by any of the following:
the Minister;
the Attorney-General;
the director-general;
the corrections director-general;
the CYP director-general;
the person in charge of the approved mental health facility at which the person is detained.
Also, the ACAT may, at any time on its own initiative, review the transfer.
For a review, the chief psychiatrist must give the ACAT a report about—
the person’s condition; and
the capacity of the approved mental health facility to continue, and the availability of any other approved mental health facility to accept a transfer for, the detention or treatment, care or support.
On review, the ACAT may, as it considers appropriate, make an order in relation to the person’s continued detention at, or treatment care or support in, an approved mental health facility.
The ACAT must tell the following, in writing, about a review under this section:
the director-general;
the corrections director-general;
the CYP director-general.
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