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Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
195What does a treatment order authorise?
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195 What does a treatment order authorise?
(1) A treatment order authorises compulsory treatment to be given to the treatment patient.
(2) A community treatment order enables the treatment patient to be treated in the community.
(3) An inpatient treatment order authorises the detention of the treatment patient for the purpose of transporting the patient to the responsible designated mental health service and the detention of the patient for the purpose of providing treatment to the patient at the service under the order.