Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) ACT 1994 - SECT 119B

    (1)     The director-general must give a mental health officer an identity card that states the person is a mental health officer for this Act and shows—

        (a)     the name of the person; and

        (b)     a recent photograph of the person.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person was appointed as a mental health officer; and

        (b)     the person ceases to be a mental health officer; and

        (c)     the person does not return the person's identity card to the director-general as soon as practicable (but within 7 days) after the day the person ceases to be a mental health officer.

Maximum penalty: 1 penalty unit.

    (3)     An offence against subsection (2) is a strict liability offence.