Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AND MENTAL HEALTH ACTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005 (NO 69 OF 2005)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purpose  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--SENTENCING ACT 1991

   3.      General amendments regarding hospital orders and hospital security orders  
   4.      Assessment orders and diagnosis, assessment and treatment orders  
   5.      New section 93 substituted and section 93A inserted  
   6.      New section 131 inserted  

   PART 3--MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1986

   7.      Definitions and references to hospital orders  
   8.      Taking a person to an approved mental health service  
   9.      Discharge of involuntary patients  
   10.     New section 15A substituted  
   11.     Restricted community treatment orders  
   12.     Transfer of mentally ill prisoners  
   13.     New sections 16A and 16B inserted  
   14.     Treatment plans  
   15.     Appeals and reviews  
   16.     New section 36B substituted and section 36BA inserted  
   17.     Power of Board on appeal or review for patients on community treatment orders  
   18.     New section 36D substituted  
   19.     New section 37 substituted and sections 37A, 37B and 37C inserted  
   20.     Consequential amendment of section 38  
   21.     New section 44 substituted  
   22.     Discharge by chief psychiatrist  
   23.     New section 46 substituted  
   24.     Automatic discharge as a security patient  
   25.     New section 150 inserted  

   PART 4--CORRECTIONS ACT 1986

   26.     Parole orders for persons subject to hospital security orders  

   PART 5--CRIMES (MENTAL IMPAIRMENT AND UNFITNESS TO BE TRIED) ACT 1997

   27.     Leave of absence  

   PART 6--CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS

   28.     Magistrates' Court Act 1989  
   29.     Juries Act 2000  
   30.     Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004  
   31.     Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005  
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