Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 840

840 Order approving interstate transfer under s 288B of repealed Act

(1) This section applies if, before the commencement under a forensic order (Mental Health Court) or forensic order (Mental Health Court—Disability), the Mental Health Court approved a patient move out of Queensland.

(2) On the commencement, the approval is taken to be an approval for the transfer of the patient given under the new Act, chapter 12, part 10, division 2.

(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that, for the new Act, section 528(3)(b), the 3-year period includes any period before the commencement for which the person was out of Queensland.

Note—

See the new Act, section 528 in relation to the effect of a transfer on a person’s forensic order (mental health), forensic order (disability) or treatment support order.