Mental Health Act Schedules 

Schedule 1 – Application to restrict freedom of communication.

Schedule 2 – Application for a person to be admitted involuntarily for observation in a licensed mental health facility.

Schedule 3 – Application for a person to be admitted involuntarily for treatment order.

Schedule 4 – Application for extension of involuntary admission for treatment order.

Schedule 5 – Application for continuing detention order.

Schedule 6 – Application for release from involuntary admission for treatment order/continuing detention order.

Schedule 7 – Application for a person to be placed on a community treatment order.

Schedule 8 – Notification of agreement to give medical care in the community.

Schedule 9 Part 1 – Conveyance order by the responsible specialist to take a patient for assessment and/or treatment.

Schedule 9 Part 2 – Conveyance order by the minister responsible for justice to take a patient for assessment and/or treatment.

Schedule 10 – Application for revocation of a community treatment order.

Schedule 11 – Certification of lack of mental capacity.

Schedule 12 – Application for revocation of a certificate of lack of mental capacity.

Schedule 13 – Notification by specialist with clinical experience of working with minors with mental health problems for an involuntary admission for observation of a minor.

Schedule 14 Part 2 – Application for invasive or irreversible treatment.

Schedule 15 – Application for leave under article 37 for a person detained under court order.

Note:

  • Schedule 1 and Schedule 8 Schedules to be used by the Primary Care Physicians/General Practitioners /Family Doctors
  • Schedule 13: For the involuntary admission of minors only to be used by a specialist with clinical experience of working with minors with mental health problems is to accompany Schedule 2.
  • Schedule 9 part 2 and Schedule 15 are to be used by Minister responsible for Justice.
  • All other Schedules are to be submitted to the Commissioner by a Specialist in Psychiatry or the Responsible Specialist.
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