New South Wales Repealed Acts

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 243

243 Functions of welfare officers

(1) It is a function of a welfare officer to escort and convey or to assist in escorting and conveying to a hospital, on the direction of the medical superintendent, a temporary patient, continued treatment patient or forensic patient:

(a) who has been granted leave of absence from a hospital, and

(b) who has suffered a breakdown in mental health, and

(c) whose return to the hospital is desirable on account of the breakdown.

(2) Other functions of a welfare officer are:

(a) to escort and convey or to assist in escorting and conveying patients from a hospital to another hospital or to a public hospital, and

(b) to visit patients who have been granted leave of absence from a hospital, and

(c) to visit the relations and friends of patients who have been granted leave of absence from a hospital for the purpose of advising them on matters relating to the welfare of those patients, and

(d) such functions, including functions in relation to community health care, as are conferred or imposed on welfare officers by or under this Act or as are assigned to the welfare officer by an authorised officer or a medical superintendent.