Mental Health (Secure Facilities) Act 2016

If the director-general makes a decision under section 17 (1), the director-general must record the decision, and the reason for the decision, in a register kept by the director-general for that purpose.

Note A decision under s 17 (1) in relation to a patient, and the reason for it, must also be recorded in the patient’s health record (see s 22).

The register must include the following information:

the name of the patient in relation to whom contact is limited;

the details of the decision, including the date it was made, the length it is imposed for and the reasons for the decision;

anything else the director-general considers necessary;

anything else prescribed by regulation.

The register may be kept in any form, including electronically, that the director-general decides.

The director-general may correct a mistake, error or omission in the register.

The register must be available for inspection, on request, by a commissioner exercising functions under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005.

Note The following commissioners exercise functions under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005:

 the children and young people commissioner

 the disability and community services commissioner

 the discrimination commissioner

 the health services commissioner

 the public advocate

 the victims of crime commissioner

 the human rights commissioner.