Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 812

812 Taking person to authorised mental health service

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement—

(a) a recommendation for assessment and a custodian’s assessment authority under the repealed Act were in force for a person; and

(b) the person had not been taken to an authorised mental health service, under the recommendation and authority, for assessment.

(2) For the purposes of the new Act, the person may be transported to the authorised mental health service under the recommendation and authority.