Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The person may be detained in an authorised mental health service for assessment for the assessment period.
Note—
The assessment period is initially not longer than 24 hours or, if that period is extended or further extended under section 47, the extended period, see the schedule (Dictionary), definition assessment period.
(2) The assessment period starts—
(a) if the person is not a patient in the health service—when the person is received at the health service for the assessment and the assessment documents are produced to a health service employee at the health service; or
(b) if the person is a patient in the health service—when assessment documents for the person—
(i) are produced to a health practitioner at the health service; or
(ii) are made by health practitioners at the health service.
(3) For subsection (2), the health service employee or health practitioner must write on the assessment documents the time when the assessment period starts.
(4) On the production or making of the assessment documents for the person under subsection (2), the person becomes an involuntary patient.