Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998
129Hearings
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129 Hearings (1) The Tribunal may undertake a review by conducting a hearing. (1A) In addition, the Tribunal must conduct a hearing to decide an application under Part 6, Division 4, for an order for a person's admission and detention as an involuntary patient on the grounds of complex cognitive impairment (an involuntary detention application).
Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998 117 (6) The person-in-charge of an approved treatment facility must ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, that a person who is admitted as an involuntary patient at the facility is dressed in a manner that maintains the person's inherent dignity as a human being when the person appears at a hearing of the Tribunal.