Duty of director of treatment centre to comply with inpatient treatment orders
33 Duty of director of treatment centre to comply with inpatient treatment orders
This section applies when—
a person to whom an inpatient treatment order applies is in the care and control of treatment centre staff; or
an inpatient treatment order is made in respect of a voluntary inpatient.
Subject to section 35, the director of the treatment centre must—
if the person is not already admitted to the centre, admit the person to the centre; and
comply with the inpatient treatment order.
Note—
The treatment centre must, in the case of a patient to whom a level 2 or level 3 inpatient treatment order applies, be an approved treatment centre (not a limited treatment centre).
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