190Act does not limit or affect other powers

#### 190 Act does not limit or affect other powers 190 Act does not limit or affect other powers > > (1) Nothing in this Act or the [Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2020-012) limits or affects any power conferred on a police officer or any other person by or under any other law with respect to stopping, searching or detaining a person (whether or not a patient) or taking any such person to any place. > > > (2) Nothing in this Act or the [Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2020-012) prevents an authorised medical officer from taking any action that the officer thinks fit to protect a patient or person detained in a mental health facility, or any other person in a mental health facility, from serious physical harm. > > **s 190:** Am 2008 No 79, Sch 2 \[47\]; 2020 No 12, Sch 3.17\[29\].