Functions of Panel
41C Functions of Panel
The
Prescribed Psychiatric Treatment Panel has the following functions in relation to the regulation of prescribed psychiatric treatments:
to conduct a review of the progress of a patient who has, in the course of any 12 month period, received 3 or more courses of ECT treatment;
to conduct a review of the progress of a patient to whom, in the course of any 12 month period, 2 or more episodes of ECT have been administered without consent in reliance on section 42(6);
to authorise the carrying out of neurosurgery on a patient as a treatment for mental illness;
to carry out any other function conferred on the Panel under this Act.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Second reading speech
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