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Originally Posted by Enunciated Piffle
Dean, you're a woman in the medical field. Do they have 51/50 in Australia?
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We can detain an individual under Section 23 of the Mental Health Act (of Parliament) for a period of (I think) 72 hours - so it's basically the same thing. It's been a while since I've had to pull the forms (I'm in ICU where we detain people with propofol!) but yeah, in that time, the detained individual has to submit to a psychiatric assessment and satisfy certain criteria in order to be released into the community again.