Mental Health Act 2015

The person in charge of an approved mental health facility must ensure that a person detained at the facility under section 85 (1) is given—

a thorough physical examination by a doctor; and

a thorough psychiatric examination by a person employed at the facility as a consultant psychiatrist, a psychiatric registrar in consultation with a consultant psychiatrist or another doctor in consultation with a consultant psychiatrist.

The examination must, as far as reasonably practicable, be conducted within 24 hours of the person being detained at the mental health facility.

The examination must not be conducted by a doctor who conducted the initial examination of the person under section 84.

However, a thorough examination mentioned in subsection (1) (a) or (b) is not required if the chief psychiatrist is satisfied on reasonable grounds that—

a doctor or psychiatrist recently gave the person such an examination; and

the examination provides sufficient relevant information about the current physical or psychiatric condition of the person.