PART 3 - INVOLUNTARY PATIENTS

Subdivision 1 - Criteria
26. Persons who should be involuntary patients
27. Application to mentally impaired defendants

Subdivision 2 - Referral for examination
28. Definition
29. Referral for examination by a psychiatrist
30. Referral of voluntary patients in certain circumstances
31. No referral without personal examination
32. Time limit
33. Form of referral
34. Police assistance
35. Operation of transport order

Subdivision 3 - Examination in an authorized hospital
36. Detention for examination
37. Choices upon examination

Subdivision 4 - Examination otherwise than in an authorized hospital
38. Time limit
39. Choices upon examination
40. Reception into hospital
41. Police assistance
42. Operation of transport order

Subdivision 5 - Involuntary status
43. Order giving involuntary status
44. Mentally Impaired Defendants Review Board to be notified in certain cases

Subdivision 1 - Place of detention
45. Hospital in which a person is to be detained
46. Transfer
47. Person in charge of hospital may decline to accept

Subdivision 2 - Period of detention
48. Initial period
49. Examination within 28 days
50. Subsequent examinations within 6 months
51. Effect of order continuing detention
52. Order for release may be made at any time
53. Saving

Subdivision 3 - Release from detention
54. Release when period of detention ends
55. When person to be returned to custody
56. Examination of prisoner about to be discharged

Subdivision 4 - Absence without leave
57. Absence without leave
58. Apprehension of person absent without leave

Subdivision 5 - Leave of absence
59. Grant of leave
60. Cancellation of leave
61. Status of patient on leave of absence
62. Monitoring of patient on leave
63. Release on advice of practitioner while patient on leave
64. Saving

Subdivision 1 - Making community treatment order
65. No detention without consideration of community treatment
66. When a community treatment order may be made
67. General power to make a community treatment order
68. Terms of community treatment order
69. Order to be confirmed
70. unity treatment order
71. Police assistance
72. Carrying out of transport order

Subdivision 2 - Operation of community treatment order
73. Duration of community treatment order
74. The supervising psychiatrist
75. Review by supervising psychiatrist
76. Extension of community treatment order
77. Supervising psychiatrist may act on authorized medical practitioner's report
78. Person may be discharged from involuntary status
79. Variation of order

Subdivision 3 - Breach of community treatment order
80. What constitutes breach of order
81. Action following breach
82. Action where breach continues
83. Treatment may be given without consent
84. Police assistance
85. Power of revocation not affected

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» Part 2: Administrative Provisions
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» Part 4: Interstate Movements
» Part 5: Treatment of Patients
» Part 6: Mental Health Review Board
» Part 7: Protection of Patients' Rights
» Part 8: Community Support Services
» Part 9: Council of Official Visitors
» Part 10: Miscellaneous
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