Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 363

363 Application of div 3

This division applies if—

(a) a person absconds while being lawfully detained under this Act or in a person’s charge under section 622 (2) ; or

(b) a person subject to a treatment authority, forensic order or treatment support order is being treated in the community and the person does not attend at an authorised mental health service or public sector health service facility as required under the authority or order; or

(c) a treatment authority, forensic order, treatment support order or judicial order is made for a person requiring the person to be detained in an authorised mental health service and the person is not in an authorised mental health service when the authority or order is made; or

(d) the category of a patient’s treatment authority, forensic order or treatment support order is changed to inpatient; or

(e) a forensic patient is receiving limited community treatment and the chief psychiatrist orders the suspension of the treatment under section 313 (2) (a) ; or

(f) the chief psychiatrist orders the category of a patient’s forensic order to be changed to inpatient under section 313 (2) (b) ; or

(g) a patient is temporarily absent from an authorised mental health service under section 221 , or receiving limited community treatment, and either of the following applies—

(i) the patient does not return to the authorised mental health service at the end of the absence or treatment;

(ii) the approval of the absence, or authorisation of the treatment, is revoked; or

(h) a person does not attend at an authorised mental health service as directed under section 56 or 99 ; or

(i) a person subject to an examination order does not attend at an authorised mental health service or public sector health service facility as directed under the order; or

(j) a person does not attend at an examining practitioner as directed under section 721 (4) (b) .