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Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020
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73 Correctional patients
73 Correctional patients
A person is a correctional patient for the purposes of this Act if—
(a) the person has been transferred from a correctional centre or detention centre to a mental health facility while—
(i) serving a sentence of imprisonment, or
(ii) on remand, or
(iii) subject to a high risk offender detention order, and
(b) the person is not a forensic patient and has not ceased to be a correctional patient under section 104 or been classified as an involuntary patient under this Part.