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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 146

Powers and duties of health care agencies

146 Powers and duties of health care agencies

(1) The Director of a health care agency implementing a community counselling order or a community treatment order may take all reasonable steps to have medication administered, and to provide services, in accordance with the order.
(2) Subject to section 128, appropriate medication may be administered to an affected person without his or her consent if it is administered without the use of more force than would be required to administer that medication if the person had consented to its administration.
(3) For the purposes of the implementation by a health care agency of a community counselling order or a community treatment order at the residence of the affected person, a member of the staff of the health care agency may, without the consent of the affected person, enter the land, but not the dwelling, at the place of residence.



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