Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 66

66 Transport for treatment and care under treatment authority or particular orders

(1) This section applies to a person in custody who is subject to a treatment authority, forensic order (mental health) or treatment support order.

(2) The person may be transported by an authorised person from the person’s place of custody to an inpatient unit of an authorised mental health service to receive treatment and care for the person’s mental illness.

(3) The authorised person may transport the person only if all of the following have been made for the person—

(a) a transfer recommendation;

(b) an administrator consent;

(c) a custodian consent.

(4) When the person is admitted to the inpatient unit of the authorised mental health service—

(a) if the category of the person’s treatment authority, forensic order (mental health) or treatment support order is community—the category is changed to inpatient; and

(b) if limited community treatment has been authorised for the person by an authorised doctor under section 52 , 57 , 209 , 212 or 216 —the authorisation is revoked; and

(c) if limited community treatment has been ordered or approved by the Mental Health Court or tribunal—the order or approval is of no effect while the person is receiving treatment and care for the person’s mental illness in the inpatient unit.