Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2000 - SECT 229

(1) A psychiatrist may apply to the tribunal for approval to administer electroconvulsive therapy on a person if the psychiatrist is satisfied—

(a) electroconvulsive therapy is the most clinically appropriate treatment alternative for the person having regard to the person's clinical condition and treatment history; and

(b) the person is incapable of giving informed consent to the treatment.

Editor's note—

For requirements of informed consent, see chapter 4 (Treatment and care of patients), part 3 (Regulated and prohibited treatments), division 1 (Informed consent).

(2) The application must be in the approved form.

(3) On making the application, the psychiatrist must tell the following about the application—

(a) if the person is an involuntary patient—the patient and the patient's allied person;

(b) otherwise—the person.