Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998
168ANotification of financial protection order
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168A Notification of financial protection order (1) No later than one day after making a financial protection order for a person, the person-in-charge of an approved treatment agency (a) notify the Tribunal that the order has been made; and (b) ensure the following are notified: (ii) a legal practitioner acting or prepared to act for the (iii) subject to subsection (2) – the person's primary carer; (iv) the principal community visitor. (2) The person-in-charge, after consulting with an authorised psychiatric practitioner, may decide not to notify the person's primary carer if the person-in-charge is of the opinion that giving the notification is not in the person's best interests. (3) If the person-in-charge decides not to notify the primary carer because of subsection (2), the person-in-charge must give to the Tribunal a written report of the decision and the reason for it in the (4) A notification under subsection (1)(b): (a) may be given by an authorised psychiatric practitioner, a medical practitioner or the senior nurse on duty at the approved treatment facility to which the person has been admitted; and
Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998 137 (b) must: (i) state the grounds for the order; and (ii) specify that the order has been made under section 168(2). (6) A person must make a record of each of the following in