Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 82

82 Chief psychiatrist may decide to return classified patient to place of custody

(1) The chief psychiatrist, on receiving a notice about a notice event mentioned in section 81 (1) (c) , may decide—

(a) it is not clinically appropriate for the classified patient to receive treatment and care for the patient’s mental illness in an inpatient unit of an authorised mental health service; and

(b) the classified patient should be returned under section 83 to a place of custody.

(2) Also, the chief psychiatrist may, on the chief psychiatrist’s own initiative, decide—

(a) it is not clinically appropriate for a classified patient to receive treatment and care for the patient’s mental illness in an inpatient unit of an authorised mental health service; and

(b) the classified patient should be returned under section 83 to a place of custody.

(3) As soon as practicable after the chief psychiatrist makes a decision under subsection (1) or (2) , the chief psychiatrist must give the administrator of the classified patient’s treating health service written notice of the decision.

(4) As soon as practicable after receiving a notice under subsection (3) , an authorised doctor for the classified patient’s treating health service must—

(a) tell the classified patient of the decision; and

(b) explain its effect to the classified patient.