Reprint as at 1 July 2009
| Public Act | 1992 No 46 |
| Date of assent | 15 June 1992 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Health.
40 Assistance in taking or returning proposed patient or patient to place of assessment or treatment
Notice of admission, discharge, and transfer of special patients and restricted patients
Psychiatric security institutions
Further provisions relating to Review Tribunals
126 Patient's pocket money [Repealed]
An Act to redefine the circumstances in which and the conditions under which persons may be subjected to compulsory psychiatric assessment and treatment, to define the rights of such persons and to provide better protection for those rights, and generally to reform and consolidate the law relating to the assessment and treatment of persons suffering from mental disorder
BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: