Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If the patient is a classified patient and, under section 247(1), the director of public prosecutions decides proceedings against the patient for the offence are to be continued, the patient must be brought before the court in which the proceedings for the offence are to continue within 7 days after the decision to be dealt with according to law.
(2) For subsection (1), a health practitioner or police officer may take the person to appear before the court.
(3) A health practitioner may exercise the power under subsection (2) with the help, and using the minimum force, that is necessary and reasonable in the circumstances.
(4) The patient may be detained in the patient's treating health service until the patient is taken to appear before the court.
(5) The custody of the patient by the administrator of the health service ends when the patient appears before the court.