Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 93

93 Direction to prepare psychiatrist report

(1) The chief psychiatrist may, on the chief psychiatrist’s own initiative—

(a) direct the administrator of the person’s treating health service to arrange for an authorised psychiatrist to prepare a psychiatrist report about the person in relation to the charge of the serious offence; or

(b) direct an authorised psychiatrist to prepare a psychiatrist report about the person in relation to the charge of the serious offence.

(2) The chief psychiatrist may give the direction only if satisfied—

(a) the person may have a mental condition; and

(b) the person—

(i) may have been of unsound mind when the serious offence was allegedly committed; or

(ii) may be unfit for trial; and

(c) the preparation of the psychiatrist report is in the public interest.

(3) The direction may include a direction for the report to be prepared about the person also in relation to an associated offence.