New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 137

137 Breach of community treatment order

(1) A breach of a community treatment order occurs if the affected person in any way refuses or fails to comply with the order and the Director of the health care agency implementing the order is of the opinion:

(a) that the agency has taken all reasonable steps to implement the order, and

(b) that there is a significant risk of deterioration in the mental or physical condition of the affected person.

(2) If there is a breach of a community treatment order, the Director must:

(a) make a written record of the opinions referred to in subsection (1), the facts on which they are based and the reasons for forming them, and

(b) through the psychiatric case manager of the affected person, inform the affected person that any further refusal to comply with the order will result in the person being taken to the health care agency or an appropriate hospital and treated there.