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Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
149Inpatient assessment order—patient to be transported to designated mental health service as soon as practicable
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149 Inpatient assessment order—patient to be transported to designated mental health service as soon as practicable
A registered medical practitioner or an authorised mental health practitioner who makes an inpatient assessment order must arrange for the assessment patient to be transported to the responsible designated mental health service as soon as practicable after the inpatient assessment order is made.