Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 446

446 Community category—orders about treatment in community

(1) This section applies if the tribunal—

(a) confirms the category of the forensic order as community; or

(b) changes the category of the forensic order to community.

(2) The tribunal must—

(a) order that an authorised doctor or a senior practitioner under the Forensic Disability Act must not change the category of the order to inpatient; or

(b) approve that an authorised doctor under section 212 or a senior practitioner under the Forensic Disability Act , section 20 may, at a future time, change the nature or extent of treatment in the community received by the person, to the extent and subject to the conditions decided by the tribunal.

Example of a change of extent of treatment in the community—

changing the category of the forensic order from community to inpatient, with or without limited community treatment