Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2000 - SECT 519

(1) This section applies if, under this Act, a person (the authorised person)—

(a) is taking a classified or forensic patient—

(i) to an authorised mental health service; or

(ii) to the forensic disability service; or

(iii) to appear before a court; or

(iv) to a place of custody; or

(b) is accompanying a classified or forensic patient or a patient for whom a court has made an order under section 273(1)(b) while the patient is undertaking limited community treatment; or

(c) is caring for a classified or forensic patient or a patient for whom a court has made an order under section 101(2), 273(1)(b) or 337(6) during the patient's absence under an approval given under section 186.

(2) For this section, while the authorised person is acting as mentioned in subsection (1), the patient is in the authorised person's charge.

(3) The authorised person must not wilfully allow the patient to abscond from the authorised person's charge.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(4) A person must not knowingly help the patient to abscond from the authorised person's charge.

Maximum penalty for subsection (4)—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.