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Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
181Community or inpatient temporary treatment order
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181 Community or inpatient temporary treatment order
(1) An authorised psychiatrist who makes a temporary treatment order must determine whether the order is—
(a) a community temporary treatment order; or
(b) subject to subsection (2), an inpatient temporary treatment order.
(2) An authorised psychiatrist must not make an inpatient temporary treatment order in respect of an assessment patient or a court assessment patient unless the authorised psychiatrist is satisfied that the patient cannot be treated in the community.