Mental Health Act 2014

This section applies whenever a person is released from restraint under an oral authorisation or a bodily restraint order.

The treating psychiatrist or, if the person does not have a treating psychiatrist, the person in charge of the authorised hospital where the person was restrained must, as soon as practicable, give the documents specified in subsection (3) relating to the restraint to —

the Chief Psychiatrist; and

if the person is a supervised person — the Mental Impairment Review Tribunal.

For subsection (2), these documents are specified —

a copy of the record of the oral authorisation (if any) made under section 230(4)(a);

a copy of the bodily restraint order (if any) made under section 231(1);

a copy of any order varying the bodily restraint order made under section 234(1) or (3);

a copy of any order revoking the bodily restraint order made under section 235(1) or any record of the expiry of the bodily restraint order made under section 237;

a copy of each of the records made under section 230(6)(a), 231(5)(a), 233(3)(a), 238(3), (4)(a) and (5)(a) and 239(3)(a).

The treating psychiatrist or person in charge must, as soon as practicable, file a record of having complied with subsection (2).