Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 824

824 Particular orders and decisions not given effect before commencement

(1) This section applies if—

(a) any of the following was made by the tribunal before the commencement—

(i) an order under the repealed Act, section 191(2)(c) or 203(2)(d) to transfer a patient from 1 authorised mental health service to another;

(ii) a decision under the repealed Act, section 197(1)(b) that a young patient be transferred from a high security unit to an authorised mental health service that was not a high security unit; and

(b) immediately before the commencement, the order or decision had not been given effect.

(2) The order or decision must be given effect under the repealed Act as if the new Act had not commenced.