87Information to be given to patients

87 Information to be given to patients (a) a person is admitted to an approved treatment facility; or (b) a community management order is made for a person. (1A) No later than one day after the person is admitted or the order is made, an authorised psychiatric practitioner must give the information specified in subsection (1B) to: (a) the person; and (b) the person's adult guardian; and (ba) if the person has a decision maker – the decision maker; and (c) the person's representative. (1B) For subsection (1A), the following information is specified: (a) the person's rights and entitlements under this Act; (b) how those rights and entitlements may be exercised; (c) the advocacy and legal services that are available to the (d) any other information relating to the person's admission and treatment as the CEO considers relevant.

Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998 85 (2) As far as possible, information given under subsection (1): (a) must be given both orally and in writing, in a language and form in which the person to whom it is given is used to communicating in and in a culturally appropriate manner including, where necessary, through the use of interpreters; or (b) where the person is used to communicating in a form other than orally or in writing, a version that is as close as possible to the content of the written information must be given in the form in which the person is used to communicating. (3) In giving information to a person under this section, regard must be had to the age, culture, disability, impairment and any other factor of the person that may influence the person understanding the information. (4) Where information is provided to a person through the use of an interpreter, that fact must be included in information provided to the Tribunal when it conducts a review in relation to the person.