Mental Health Act 2015
114Powers in relation to forensic community care order
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114 Powers in relation to forensic community care order (a) a forensic community care order has been made in relation to a (i) the order requires the person to be detained at an approved community care facility; or (ii) the care coordinator requires the person to be detained at an approved community care facility under section 124 (Contravention of forensic mental health
(2) The care coordinator may— (a) detain the person at the facility in the custody that the care coordinator considers appropriate; and Note See s 263 (Powers of entry and apprehension) and s 264 (Powers of search and seizure). and causing harm to themself or someone else. (3) If the care coordinator subjects a person to involuntary seclusion, the care coordinator must ensure that the person is examined by a relevant doctor of the approved community care facility at least once in each 4-hour period for which the person is in seclusion. (4) If a community care order made in relation to a person authorises the giving of medication for the treatment of the person’s mental disorder, the care coordinator may— medication prescribed by a doctor in accordance with the order; and
Limits on communication under forensic mental health orders Division 7.1.6 (5) If the care coordinator subjects a person to restraint, involuntary seclusion or forcible giving of medication, the care coordinator and relevant doctor, of an approved community care facility, means a person employed at the facility as a consultant psychiatrist, a psychiatric registrar in consultation with a consultant psychiatrist or another doctor in consultation with a consultant psychiatrist. Division 7.1.6 Limits on communication under forensic mental health orders