Release of involuntary inpatient while on leave (1996 Act s. 63)
622 Release of involuntary inpatient while on leave (1996 Act s. 63)
This section applies in relation to an involuntary inpatient under a continuing inpatient treatment order who is on leave of absence from an authorised hospital because of section 620.
If, immediately before commencement day, the involuntary inpatient’s treating psychiatrist had received a written opinion from another medical practitioner or an authorised mental health practitioner to the effect described in the 1996 Act section 63(1)(b) but had not done anything under section 63(2) of that Act as a result of the opinion, the written opinion is taken to be a written opinion received by the treating psychiatrist under section 109.
A community treatment order made under the 1996 Act section 63(2)(b) that was in force immediately before commencement day is taken to be a community treatment order made under section 90(1)(a).
The person who is under the community treatment order is taken to be an involuntary community patient.
[Section 622 inserted: No. 25 of 2014 s. 9.]
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