Tasmanian Numbered Acts Tasmanian Numbered Acts
- Act 72 of 2005
- Royal Assent 13 January 2006
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 - Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
PART 2 - Mental Health Act 1996 Amended
3. Principal Act
4. Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
5. Section 5AA inserted
6. Section 5A amended (Application of Act)
7. Section 6 amended (Objects of Act)
8. Section 7 amended (Principle of minimum interference with civil
rights)
9. Section 9 amended (Approval of hospitals)
10. Section 10 amended (Approval of assessment centres)
11. Section 10A inserted
12. Section 11 amended (Revocation of approval)
13. Part 2, Division 1A inserted
14. Part 2, Division 3 substituted
15. Section 29 amended (Term and renewal of continuing care order)
16. Part 5, Division 2 repealed
17. Section 34 amended (Physical restraint)
18. Section 35 amended (Seclusion of involuntary patients)
19. Section 36 amended (Monthly reports on bodily restraint and
seclusion)
20. Section 39 amended (Transfer of involuntary patient)
21. Section 44 amended (Term and renewal of community treatment order)
22. Section 46 amended (Monthly reports)
23. Part 9: Heading amended
24. Part 9, Division 1: Heading amended
25. Section 48 amended (Establishment of Mental Health Tribunal)
26. Section 49 amended (Mental Health Tribunal to sit in divisions)
27. Section 50 amended (Mental Health Tribunal may act by majority)
28. Part 9, Division 2: Heading amended
29. Section 51 amended (Functions of Mental Health Tribunal)
30. Section 52 amended (Reviews of certain orders, authorisations and
admissions)
31. Section 53 amended (Applications for review)
32. Section 54 amended (Notification and hearing of review)
33. Part 9, Division 3: Heading amended
34. Section 55 amended (Times and places of sittings)
35. Section 56 amended (General principles for hearings by Mental Health
Tribunal)
36. Section 57 amended (Representation in proceedings before Mental Health
Tribunal)
37. Section 58 amended (Evidence before Mental Health Tribunal)
38. Section 59 amended (Summonses to witnesses)
39. Section 60 amended (Power to require reports, &c.)
40. Section 61 amended (Medical examinations)
41. Section 62 amended (Visits by Mental Health Tribunal)
42. Section 63 amended (Right of Public Guardian and Secretary to
intervene)
43. Section 64 amended (Proceedings to be closed)
44. Part 9, Division 4: Heading amended
45. Section 65 amended (Powers of Mental Health Tribunal on review)
46. Section 66 amended (Evidence of Mental Health Tribunal's
determination)
47. Section 67 amended (Obligation to comply with determinations)
48. Section 68 amended (Register)
49. Section 69 amended (Annual report of Mental Health Tribunal)
50. Parts 10A and 10B inserted
51. Section 73 amended (Appointment of official visitors)
52. Section 74 renumbered
53. Section 75 amended (Functions of official visitor)
54. Section 77 amended (Visiting approved hospitals and secure mental
health unit)
55. Section 78 amended (Controlling authority to facilitate visits on
request)
56. Section 79 substituted
57. Section 81 amended (Annual report by coordinating official visitor)
58. Section 82 amended (Transfer agreements)
59. Section 83 amended (Effect of transfer agreements)
60. Section 83B amended (Agreements for the return, &c., of
absconding involuntary patients)
61. Section 83F amended (Apprehension, &c., of involuntary patients
found interstate)
62. Section 84 amended (Protection relating to reports and information)
63. Section 85 amended (Confidentiality of information)
64. Section 86 amended (Protection from liability)
65. Section 88 amended (Removal, &c., of involuntary patient or
forensic patient)
66. Section 89 amended (Obstruction)
67. Section 90 amended (Confidentiality)
68. Section 91 amended (Non-compliance with legal process)
69. Section 93 amended (Disqualification of certain medical practitioners)
70. Section 95 amended (Regulations)
71. Section 98 repealed
72. Schedule 1 amended (Members and staff of the Mental Health Tribunal)
73. Schedule 1A inserted
PART 3 - Coroners Act 1995 Amended
74. Principal Act
75. Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
76. Section 19 amended (Obligation to report death)
77. Section 24 amended (Jurisdiction of coroner to hold inquest into a
death)
78. Section 28 amended (Findings, &c., of coroner investigating a
death)
PART 4 - Corrections Act 1997 Amended
79. Principal Act
80. Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
81. Section 36 amended (Removal of prisoners and detainees to other
prisons and to hospitals, &c.)
82. Sections 36A and 36B inserted
83. Section 39 amended (Effect of directions, requirements and orders
under sections 36, 36A, 36B, 37, 37A and 38)
84. Section 40 amended (Custody of prisoners and detainees removed
pursuant to sections 36, 36A, 37, 37A and 38)
85. Section 72 amended (Release on parole)
86. Section 83BA inserted
PART 5 - Criminal Code Act 1924 Amended
87. Principal Act
88. Principal Act amended
PART 6 - Criminal Justice (Mental Impairment) Act 1999 Amended
89. Principal Act
90. Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
91. Section 4 amended (Application of Act)
92. Sections 6 and 7 repealed
93. Section 18 amended (Effect of findings)
94. Section 21 substituted
95. Part 4: Heading amended
96. Section 22 amended (Interpretation: Part 4)
97. Part 4, Division 2 repealed
98. Sections 24 and 25 substituted
99. Section 26 amended (Discharge of restriction orders)
100. Sections 27 and 28 substituted
101. Section 29 amended (Subsequent fitness for trial of person subject
to continuing care order or forensic order)
102. Section 29A inserted
103. Section 30 amended (Variation or revocation of supervision order)
104. Section 31 substituted
105. Part 4, Division 5A inserted
106. Section 34 substituted
107. Section 35 amended (Matters to which courts are to have regard)
108. Section 36 amended (Appeals)
109. Part 4, Division 8: Heading amended
110. Section 37 substituted
111. Section 39 amended (Power of court to deal with defendant before
proceedings completed)
112. Sections 39A , 39B and 39C inserted
113. Section 41 amended (Arrest of person escaping from detention or
absent without leave)
114. Section 41A inserted
115. Section 42A inserted
116. Sections 43 and 44 substituted
PART 7 - Forensic Procedures Act 2000 Amended
117. Principal Act
118. Section 26 amended (Non-intimate forensic procedure on order of
police officer)
119. Section 28 amended (Forensic procedure carried out in prison,
&c.)
PART 8 - Guardianship and Administration Act 1995 Amended
120. Principal Act
121. Section 3 amended (Interpretation)
122. Part 6, Division 2A inserted
123. Schedule 1 amended (Members of Board)
PART 9 - Justices Act 1959 Amended
124. Principal Act
125. Section 47 substituted
126. Section 144 amended (Rules of court)
PART 10 - Sentencing Act 1997 Amended
127. Principal Act
128. Section 4 amended (Interpretation)
129. Part 10: Heading amended
130. Section 72 amended (Court may make assessment order)
131. Section 73 amended (What is an assessment order?)
132. Section 75 amended (Continuing care order, supervision order and
restriction order)
133. Sections 76 , 77 and 78 substituted
134. Section 79 amended (Effect of continuing care order)
135. Section 79A amended (Arrest of assessment order detainees who
abscond)
136. Section 79B amended (Arrest of detainees who flee the State)
PART 11 - Youth Justice Act 1997 Amended
137. Principal Act
138. Section 25 amended (How youth is to be dealt with if not granted
bail)
139. Section 105 substituted
140. Section 108B amended (Application of Part 5)
141. Sections 134A and 134B inserted
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