Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 450

450 Making of treatment support order

(1) The tribunal must decide to make a treatment support order for the person if the tribunal considers a treatment support order, but not a forensic order, is necessary, because of the person’s mental condition, to protect the safety of the community, including from the risk of serious harm to other persons or property.

(2) For making a treatment support order under subsection (1) , sections 144 and 145 apply as if—

(a) a reference in the sections to the Mental Health Court were a reference to the tribunal; and

(b) a reference in the sections to the person the subject of the reference were a reference to the person subject to the forensic order.