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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2013 - SECT 187

Review of seclusion and restraint

The following provisions govern the review of any instance of seclusion or restraint:
(a) the Tribunal may do the review on its own motion at any time;
(b) the Tribunal must do the review on the application of any person with the necessary standing;
(c) the Tribunal may do the review even if the period of seclusion or restraint has ended;
(d) on review, the Tribunal may –
(i) affirm the use of the seclusion or restraint; or
(ii) direct that the seclusion or restraint be terminated or suspended forthwith or by a specified time (if it is ongoing); or
(iii) declare that the patient should not have been subjected to the seclusion or restraint, either at all or in the way it was.



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