Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2000 - SECT 5

The purpose of this Act is to be achieved in the following ways—

(a) providing for the detention, examination, admission, assessment and treatment of persons having, or believed to have, a mental illness;

(b) establishing the Mental Health Review Tribunal to, among other things—

(i) carry out reviews relating to involuntary patients; and

(ii) hear applications to administer or perform particular treatments;

Editor's note—

For the tribunal's jurisdiction, see chapter 12 (Mental Health Review Tribunal), part 1 (Establishment, jurisdiction and powers).

(c) establishing the Mental Health Court to, among other things, decide the state of mind of persons charged with criminal offences;

Editor's note—

For the Mental Health Court's jurisdiction, see chapter 11 (Mental Health Court), part 1 (Establishment, constitution, jurisdiction and powers).

(d) providing for the making of arrangements for—

(i) the transfer to other States of involuntary patients; and

(ii) the transfer to Queensland of persons who have mental illnesses;

(e) when making a decision under this Act about a forensic patient, taking into account—

(i) the protection of the community; and

(ii) the needs of a victim of the alleged offence to which the applicable forensic order relates.