Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) If, while detained at an assessment facility, a person is found to be an involuntary patient under the Mental Health Act, a senior assessment clinician at the facility must, as soon as practicable:
(a) advise the person-in-charge of the approved treatment facility to which the person has been admitted under the Mental Health Act of the person's whereabouts; and
(b) ensure that the person is released from the facility into the care of the person-in-charge.
(2) If, while detained at an assessment facility, a person is found to be an involuntary managed person, a senior assessment clinician at the facility must, as soon as practicable:
(a) if the person is the subject of:
(i) a community management order – advise the psychiatric case manager for the person under the Mental Health Act of the person's whereabouts; or
(ii) an interim community management order – advise the person-in-charge of an approved treatment agency named in the order of the person's whereabouts; and
(b) ensure that the person is released from the facility in accordance with the directions of an authorised psychiatric practitioner or psychiatric case manager under the Mental Health Act.
(3) To avoid doubt, subsections (1) and (2) apply whether or not an application has been made in relation to the person under section 22 .