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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2000 - SECT 69

69 Classified patients

(1) On production of the following assessment documents for the person to a health service employee at the authorised mental health service, the person becomes a classified patient—

(a) the recommendation for assessment for the person;
(b) court assessment order or custodian's assessment authority.

(2) The classified patient may be detained in the health service.

(3) The patient is a classified patient until the patient ceases to be a classified patient under section 78, 94, 99, 100C, 253 or 287.

Editor's note—
For what happens on patient ceasing to be classified patient, see division 5.


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