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CurrentAssessment criteria
Chapter 2Assessment, Treatment and Management of patients
Part 3Involuntary Patients
Division 1Assessment orders
25 Assessment criteria
The assessment criteria are –
the person has, or appears to have, a mental illness that requires or is likely to require treatment for – the person's health or safety; or the safety of other persons; and the person cannot be properly assessed with regard to the mental illness or the making of a treatment order except under the authority of the assessment order; and the person does not have decision-making capacity.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory notesSecond reading speech
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