Offences relating to patients absconding
622 Offences relating to patients absconding
This section applies if a person is—
transporting a person (the patient) under this Act—
to an authorised mental health service; or
to the forensic disability service; or
to appear before a court; or
to a place of custody; or
accompanying a classified patient, forensic patient or person subject to a judicial order (also the patient) while the patient is receiving limited community treatment or on a temporary absence under section 221.
For this section, while the person is acting as mentioned in subsection (1), the patient is in the person’s charge.
The person must not wilfully allow the patient to abscond from the person’s charge.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
A person must not knowingly help the patient to abscond from the person’s charge.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
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