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This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 71

Leave of absence

71 Leave of absence

If a medical superintendent is of the opinion that it will benefit the health of:

(a) a person detained under Part 2 in respect of whom an inquiry has not been held under section 41 and who has not been discharged or classified as an informal patient, or
(b) a temporary patient or a continued treatment patient,
the medical superintendent may allow the person or patient to be absent from a hospital for such period and subject to such conditions, if any, as the medical superintendent thinks fit.



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