New South Wales Repealed Acts

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 286I

286I Admission of interstate persons to hospitals in this State

(1) A person who may be taken to and detained in a hospital in another State under a corresponding law of that State may instead be taken to and detained in a hospital in this State.

(2) A person may be taken to a hospital in this State under this section by:

(a) a person who is authorised by this Act to take a person to a hospital, or to apprehend a person and take the person to a hospital, if this is permitted by or under the law of the other State, or

(b) any other person who is authorised to do so by the regulations or under a provision of a corresponding law of the other State.

(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to:

(a) the handing over of custody of a person referred to in subsection (1) to persons in this State, and

(b) the persons (including interstate persons) who may take any such person to a hospital in this State under this section, and

(c) the hospitals to which a person may be taken under this section and the places taken to be hospitals for the purposes of this section.