Section 37
Community care treatment at community mental health centre
ActIn forceProvision 37 of 94
Section 37
(1)
An involuntary patient who has been discharged or granted leave of absence from a psychiatric hospital may be required by the Medical Director or the Visitors, as the case may be, to undergo community care treatment at a government community mental health centre or a gazetted private community mental health centre.
(2)
Any community mental health centre may provide community care treatment to voluntary and involuntary patients.
(3)
The community care treatment referred to in subsections (1)
and (2) shall be provided on an outpatient basis, and no patient shall be lodged in any part of a community mental health centre for more than twenty-four hours.