New South Wales Repealed Acts

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 261

261 Annual report

(1) As soon as practicable after 1 March, but on or before 1 June, in each year, the President must prepare and forward to the Minister a report as to the exercise by the Tribunal of its functions and, in relation to persons taken to hospital under Part 2 of Chapter 4, the matters set out in subsection (2).

(2) The matters to be included relating to persons taken to hospitals are:

(a) the number of persons so taken and the provisions of this Act under which they were so taken, and

(b) the number of persons detained as mentally ill persons or mentally disordered persons, and

(c) the number of persons in respect of whom an inquiry under section 41 was held, and

(d) the number of persons detained as temporary patients, and

(e) the number of persons classified as continued treatment patients.

(3) The report is also to include such other matters as the Minister may direct or as may be prescribed.

(4) The Minister must lay the report, or cause it to be laid, before each House of Parliament as soon as practicable after receiving the report.

(5) A report made under the Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985 in respect of the Department of Health may include any report required to be made under this section.