Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 160

160 Other use of expert’s report

(1) This section applies to an expert’s report filed in the Mental Health Court Registry for a proceeding on a reference.

(2) The report may be given to, and used by, a person only with the leave of the court.

(3) The court may grant the leave subject to the conditions it considers appropriate.

(4) Despite subsection (2) , if the report has been received in evidence by the court on the reference, the report may be given to—

(a) if an authorised mental health service is responsible for the person the subject of the reference—the administrator of the service; or

(b) if the forensic disability service is responsible for the person the subject of the reference—the administrator of the service; or

(c) the tribunal for conducting a review.