30Assessment of patient

30 Assessment of patient

(1)  Once an assessment order has taken effect, the patient must be independently assessed within 24 hours unless the order is sooner discharged.

(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1) , an assessment is independent if and only if it is done by an approved medical practitioner other than the medical practitioner who applied for or made the assessment order.

Note

A failure to observe subsection (1) extinguishes the order – see section 34 .