Power to review detention
673 Power to review detention
The Mental Health Court may, on application by a prescribed person or on its own initiative, review a person’s detention in a relevant service to decide whether the person’s detention is lawful.
However, subsection (1) does not apply if the person’s detention in the relevant service has been ordered by the Mental Health Court.
An application for review must—
be in the approved form; and
state the grounds on which it is made.
In this section—
prescribed person means the following—
a person who is detained in a relevant service;
an interested person for the person mentioned in paragraph (a);
the Attorney-General.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed person
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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