Tasmanian Numbered Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (TRANSITIONAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2013 (NO. 69 OF 2013)

- Act 69 of 2013
- Royal Assent 13 December 2013

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 2 - Transitional Provisions

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   3.      Interpretation

           Division 2 - Facilities and infrastructure

   4.      Assessment and treatment facilities
   5.      Secure institutions

           Division 3 - Personnel and administration

   6.      Chief Forensic Psychiatrist
   7.      Approved medical practitioners
   8.      Approved psychiatric nurses
   9.      Authorised officers
   10.     Authorised persons
   11.     Approved nurses
   12.     Official Visitors
   13.     Tribunals
   14.     Loss of remuneration, &c.

           Division 4 - Persons in custody

   15.     Persons in custody

           Division 5 - Involuntary patients

   16.     Applications for involuntary admission and detention
   17.     Initial orders for admission
   18.     Continuing care orders
   19.     Community treatment orders
   20.     Suspended community treatment orders
   21.     Authorisations for temporary admission
   22.     Consents
   23.     Physical restraint
   24.     Seclusion
   25.     Leaves of absence
   26.     Transfers

           Division 6 - Forensic patients

   27.     Forensic patients
   28.     Forensic patient request to return to prison
   29.     Treatments and procedures
   30.     Physical restraint of forensic patient
   31.     Seclusion of forensic patient
   32.     Force
   33.     Leaves of absence for patients not subject to restriction orders
   34.     Leaves of absence for patients subject to restriction orders
   35.     Removals to hospitals, secure institutions, &c.
   36.     Return of forensic patients to secure mental health unit
   37.     Orders bringing persons before court

           Division 7 - Tribunals and proceedings

   38.     Records of defunct Tribunals
   39.     Uncommenced proceedings of defunct Tribunals
   40.     Court proceedings
   41.     Summoning witnesses
   42.     Requirement for report
   43.     Requirement for medical examination
   44.     Determinations of Tribunal

           Division 8 - Official visitors

   45.     Complaints to official visitor
   46.     Official Visitor reports

           Division 9 - Miscellaneous transitional provisions

   47.     Transfer of patients to secure mental health unit
   48.     Actions, &c., under intergovernmental agreements
   49.     Tribunals
   50.     Provision of reports
   51.     Transitional clinical guidelines and standing orders
   52.     Saving and transitional regulations

   PART 3 - Miscellaneous

   53.     Administration of Act
   54.     Consequential amendments
   55.     Further consequential amendments
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2