New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 297

297 Offences in relation to certain certificates

A medical practitioner must not:

(a) sign a certificate in the form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 or in Schedule 3 without having personally examined or personally observed, on the date specified in the certificate, the person to whom the certificate relates for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the person, or

(b) wilfully make a false or misleading statement in a certificate referred to in paragraph (a).

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.