Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 742

742 Victim impact statement

(1) For the hearing of a review of a forensic order or treatment support order, a victim of the relevant unlawful act, or a close relative of the victim, may give the tribunal a victim impact statement in relation to the act.

(2) The victim impact statement may include a request by the victim or close relative that the tribunal impose a condition on the forensic order or treatment support order that the person must not contact—

(a) the victim or close relative; or

(b) another individual, including, for example, another close relative of the victim.

(3) For this section, it does not matter whether the victim or the close relative has previously—

(a) prepared a victim impact statement for the Mental Health Court in relation to the relevant unlawful act; or

(b) given the tribunal a victim impact statement in relation to the relevant unlawful act.