63Admission

63 Admission

(1)  [Section 63 Subsection (1) amended by No. 4 of 2023, s. 82, Applied:25 Sep 2023] An involuntary patient who is not a person to whom section 68(1) applies may be admitted to an SMHU if the admission is authorised by the Chief Psychiatrist.

Note

An involuntary patient who is a person to whom section 68(1) applies may be admitted to an SMHU under section 68 .

(2)  However, such authorisation may be given only if –

(a) [Section 63 Subsection (2) amended by No. 4 of 2023, s. 82, Applied:25 Sep 2023] the patient is being detained in an approved facility; or

(b) [Section 63 Subsection (2) amended by No. 4 of 2023, s. 82, Applied:25 Sep 2023] the patient –

(i) is not a prisoner or youth detainee; or

(ii) is to cease to be a prisoner, or youth detainee, within 60 minutes of the authorisation being given; and

(c) [Section 63 Subsection (2) amended by No. 4 of 2023, s. 82, Applied:25 Sep 2023] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(d) [Section 63 Subsection (2) amended by No. 4 of 2023, s. 82, Applied:25 Sep 2023] the Chief Psychiatrist is satisfied that –

(i) the patient is, by reason of mental illness, a danger to himself or herself or to others; and

(ii) [Section 63 Subsection (2) amended by No. 4 of 2023, s. 82, Applied:25 Sep 2023] that danger is or has become so serious as to make –

(A) if the patient is detained at an approved facility other than an SMHU, the continued detaining of the patient at the approved facility untenable; or