609Persons absent without leave from designated mental health service

609 Persons absent without leave from designated mental health service

A person who is absent without leave from a designated mental health service and who is taken into care and control in a participating State or Territory may be transported back to the designated mental health service by—

(a) a person who is authorised under a corresponding law in that State or Territory to transport the person to an interstate mental health facility; or

(b) an authorised person.

See Chapter 5 in relation to further obligations applying to being taken into care and control and transport under this Act.

Chapter 14—Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health

Part 14.1—Preliminary

610 Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health

(1) The Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health is established.

See section 777.

(2) The Institute—

(3) The official seal of the Institute must be kept in custody as directed by the Institute and must only be used as authorised by the Institute.

(4) All courts must take judicial notice of the official seal of the Institute affixed to a document and, until the contrary is proved, presume that it was duly affixed.