Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020
95Commissioner of Corrective Services may grant leave for correctional patients
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95 Commissioner of Corrective Services may grant leave for correctional patients
95 Commissioner of Corrective Services may grant leave for correctional patients
(1) The Commissioner of Corrective Services may allow a correctional patient to be absent from a mental health facility for the period and subject to any terms and conditions that the Commissioner of Corrective Services thinks fit.
(2) The Tribunal may, on a review of a correctional patient, make recommendations to the Commissioner of Corrective Services as to the granting of leave to the patient.
(3) In determining whether to grant leave to a correctional patient to be absent from a mental health facility, the Commissioner of Corrective Services must have regard to recommendations made by the Tribunal on a review of the patient as to the granting of leave.