Handover of person temporarily detained for assessment
18 Handover of person temporarily detained for assessment
An MHO or police officer who temporarily detains a person for the purposes of assessment – must escort the person to an approved assessment centre (or ensure that another MHO or police officer does so) if the person is not already at an approved assessment centre; and may ask any MHO at the approved assessment centre to continue to so detain the person.
An MHO who is asked to continue to detain a person pursuant to subsection (1)(b) must comply with the request unless it would be unsafe in the circumstances to do so.
The temporary detaining of a person for assessment is not taken to have been interrupted or terminated merely because physical control of the person has been handed over from one MHO or police officer to another such officer.
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