Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 669

669 Recommendation or request for court examination order on reference

(1) This section applies if, for a proceeding for a reference in relation to a person, an assisting clinician recommends, or the director of public prosecutions asks, that the Mental Health Court make a court examination order for the person.

(2) The registrar must give the parties to the proceeding written notice of the recommendation or request.

(3) The notice must state that the parties may make written submissions on the recommendation or request within the reasonable time stated in the notice.

(4) The registrar must give the court—

(a) the recommendation or request; and

(b) any submission made by a party on it.

(5) The director of public prosecutions must pay the costs of an examination requested by the director of public prosecutions.