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Third
Session, 47th General Assembly 63
Elizabeth II, 2014 |
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE
MENTAL HEALTH CARE |
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Received and Read the First Time................................................................................................. |
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Second |
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Committee.......................................................................................................................................... |
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Royal Assent...................................................................................................................................... |
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HONOURABLE
SUSAN SULLIVAN Minister of Health and Community Services |
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Ordered
to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly |
EXPLANATORY NOTES This Bill would amend the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act to · clarify to whom a rights advisor may offer advice and assistance; · add a requirement for a rights advisor to contact a person who is an involuntary patient or who is under a community treatment order and his or her representative within 10 days of the first meeting between the rights advisor and the person; and · remove the requirement for a community treatment order to contain an undertaking by the person who is the subject of the order. |
A BILL AN ACT TO AMEND THE MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND TREATMENT ACT Analysis 1. S.14 Amdt. 2. S.41 Amdt. Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows: SNL2006 cM-9.1 1. (1) Paragraph 14(1)(a) of the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act is repealed and the following substituted: (a) a person who is an involuntary patient; (2) Paragraph 14(2)(a) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted: (a) meet in person or by other means as soon as possible with a person referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) and in any event within 24 hours of the person becoming an involuntary patient or the issuance of a community treatment order and meet after that at the request of the person referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) or as required by this Act or the regulations; (3) Subsection 14(2) of the Act is amended by adding immediately after paragraph (a) the following: (a.1) contact a person referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) and his or her representative within 10 days of the meeting referred to in paragraph (a) unless the person or the representative contacts the rights advisor first; 2. Subsection 41(2) of the Act is amended by adding the word "and" at the end of paragraph (f) and by repealing paragraph (g). ©Queen's Printer |