Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The treatment criteria for a person, are all of the following—
(a) the person has a mental illness;
(b) the person's illness requires immediate treatment;
(c) the proposed treatment is available at an authorised mental health service;
(d) because of the person's illness—
(i) there is an imminent risk that the person may cause harm to himself or herself or someone else; or
(ii) the person is likely to suffer serious mental or physical deterioration;
(e) there is no less restrictive way of ensuring the person receives appropriate treatment for the illness;
(f) the person—
(i) lacks the capacity to consent to be treated for the illness; or
(ii) has unreasonably refused proposed treatment for the illness.
(2) Despite the Guardianship and Administration Act 2000 and the Powers of Attorney Act 1998, the person's own consent only is relevant for subsection (1)(f).