Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 746

746 Proceeding by remote conferencing or on the papers

(1) The tribunal may, if appropriate, conduct all or a part of a proceeding by remote conferencing.

(2) Also, for the hearing of a proceeding for a review of a treatment authority, the tribunal may conduct all or a part of the proceeding entirely on the basis of documents, without the parties, their representatives or witnesses appearing at the hearing, if the person subject to the treatment authority does not wish to attend or be represented by another person at the hearing.

(3) Provisions of this Act applying to a hearing apply with necessary changes in relation to a proceeding conducted under subsection (1) or (2) .

Examples of application of subsection (3)—

1 If a hearing is conducted under subsection (1) or (2) , section 741 continues to apply to the proceeding as if the parties to the proceeding were present before the tribunal.

2 If a hearing is conducted under subsection (2) , section 418 will have no application.