Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsThe purpose of this chapter is to provide for the following—
(a) the responsibilities of authorised doctors and administrators of authorised mental health services in providing treatment and care to patients;
(b) the assessment of patients subject to a treatment authority to decide whether continuation of the authority is appropriate;
(c) the authorisation of treatment in the community for involuntary patients;
(d) the approval of temporary absences for particular involuntary patients;
(e) the appointment of nominated support persons and the recording of advance health directives, enduring powers of attorney and details relating to nominated support persons;
(f) the placing of restrictions on the use of electroconvulsive therapy and non-ablative neurosurgical procedures to treat a mental illness;
(g) the prohibition of psychosurgery and other treatments.