Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2000 - SECT 48

(1) If an authorised doctor for the authorised mental health service has not made an involuntary treatment order for the patient at the end of the assessment period for the patient—

(a) the patient ceases to be an involuntary patient; and

(b) the doctor must tell the patient that the patient is no longer an involuntary patient.

(2) However, the person may continue to be a patient of the authorised mental health service other than as an involuntary patient.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if the person—

(a) was taken to the health service for—

(i) assessment under part 3, division 1; or

(ii) examination under part 3, division 3, and assessment documents were made for the person before the end of the examination time for the person; and

(b) is not an in-patient of the health service.

(4) The administrator of the health service must, as soon as practicable, make arrangements for the person's return to the place from which the person was taken for the assessment or examination or for the person to be taken to another place the person reasonably asks to be taken.