Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 257

257 Chief psychiatrist may give written direction about seclusion

The chief psychiatrist may give an authorised mental health service a written direction stating any of the following—

(a) that no relevant patients may be kept in seclusion;

(b) that a class of relevant patients may not be kept in seclusion;

(c) that a particular relevant patient may not be kept in seclusion;

(d) requirements about the way in which all relevant patients, a class of relevant patients, or a particular relevant patient are to be kept in seclusion;

(e) that all relevant patients, a class of relevant patients, or a particular relevant patient may be kept in seclusion only if the seclusion is provided for under a reduction and elimination plan for the relevant patient approved under section 267 .