New South Wales Repealed Acts

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 95

95 Security conditions for forensic patients

(1) Except as provided by subsection (3), a forensic patient detained in a hospital, prison or other place or absent in accordance with this Part is to be subject to such security conditions as an authorised officer may consider necessary.

(2) A forensic patient may be transported to and from such places as may be necessary or convenient for the administration of this Act in accordance with such security conditions as an authorised officer may consider necessary.

(3) A forensic patient detained in any part of the Long Bay Prison Hospital that is a hospital within the meaning of this Act is to be subject to such security conditions as the Director-General of Corrective Services may consider necessary.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3):

(a) any part of the Long Bay Prison Hospital that is a hospital within the meaning of this Act is to be taken to be a correctional centre within the meaning of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 , and

(b) a forensic patient who is detained in such a hospital is to be taken to be an inmate within the meaning of that Act and that Act and the regulations made under that Act, with such modifications and to the extent specified by the regulations, apply to such a patient.