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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 124

Duration of community counselling orders

124 Duration of community counselling orders

(1) A community counselling order expires:
(a) on a date stated in the order that is not later than 6 months after the date of the order, or
(b) if an expiry date is not stated in the order--6 months after the date of the order, or
(c) if the affected person is detained in a hospital under this Act or becomes a forensic patient.
(2) In determining the duration of a community counselling order, the Tribunal or Magistrate must take into account the estimated time required:
(a) to stabilise the condition of the affected person, and
(b) to establish, or re-establish, a therapeutic relationship between the person and the person's psychiatric case manager.
(3) This section does not:
(a) limit the number of applications for a community counselling order that may be made in respect of the same person, or
(b) prevent the making of an order on any of those applications,
if, at the hearing of such an application, there is presented a report under section 126 as to the efficacy of the last preceding community counselling order.
(4) Nothing in this section prevents the Director of the health care agency from discharging a person from having to comply with a community counselling order if the Director is of the opinion that it is appropriate to do so.



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