Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 705

705 Jurisdiction and independence

(1) The tribunal has jurisdiction to—

(a) review the following under chapter 12 —

(i) treatment authorities;

(ii) forensic orders;

(iii) treatment support orders;

(iv) a person’s fitness for trial;

(v) the detention of a minor in a high security unit; and

(b) hear applications for the following—

(i) examination authorities;

(ii) approvals of regulated treatment;

(iii) approvals of transfers of particular patients into and out of Queensland; and

(c) decide appeals under chapter 13 , part 2 .

(2) In exercising its jurisdiction, the tribunal—

(a) must act independently; and

(b) is not subject to direction or control by any entity, including any Minister.