Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 547

547 Mental Health Court may make forensic order or treatment support order

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the decision appealed against is a decision of the tribunal that a person is fit for trial; and

Note—

The tribunal may decide a person is fit for trial on a review under chapter 12 , part 6 .

(b) the forensic order or treatment support order to which the person was subject has ended under section 497 (2) ; and

(c) the Mental Health Court decides on the appeal that the person is unfit for trial.

(2) The Mental Health Court may make the orders the court may make under chapter 5 , part 4 as if a reference in the part to a reference in relation to a person were a reference to an appeal against a decision of the tribunal that a person is fit for trial.