Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 270

270 Requirements for use of physical restraint

An authorised doctor, or a health practitioner in charge of an inpatient unit or other unit within an authorised mental health service, may authorise the use of physical restraint on a patient for 1 or more of the following purposes if there is no other reasonably practicable way to achieve the purpose—

(a) to protect the patient or others from physical harm;

(b) to provide treatment and care to the patient;

(c) to prevent the patient from causing serious damage to property;

(d) for a patient detained in an authorised mental health service—to prevent the patient from leaving the service.