Working Parties

• Council of Official Visitors
• Mental Health Review Board
• Treatment of Patients - Part 5
• Protection of Patients - Part 7
• Involuntary Status & Community Treatment Order
• Interstate Transfer
• Criminal Law Mentally Impaired Defendants

Rural & Remote

• Rural and Remote Consultation - June/July 2003

Synthesis

Synthesis of the recommendations of the review of:

Mental Health Act 1996

• The Way Forward - Synthesis of the Review of the Mental Health Act 1996
• A. Synthesis of General Principles Arising from the Review
• 1. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 1 - Preliminary
• 2. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 2 - Administrative Provisions
• 3. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 3 - Involuntary Patients
• 4. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 4 - Interstate Movements
• 5. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 5 - Treatment of Patients
• 6. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 6 - Mental Health Review Board (including Schedules 1 & 2)
• 7. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 7 – Protection of Patients Rights
• 8. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 8 - Community Support Services
• 9. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 9 - Council of Official Visitors (including Schedule 3)
• 10. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 10 - Miscellaneous
• Y. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Minors
• Z. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Complaints
• Appendix 1: United Nations Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care (1991)
• Appendix 2: Extracted Sections from the Northern Territory Mental Health and Related Services Act 2002

Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996

• The Way Forward - Synthesis of the Review of the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996
• A. Synthesis of General Principles Arising from the Review
• 1. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 1 - Preliminary
• 2. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 2 - General Provisions about Mentally Ill Defendants
• 3. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 3 - Mental Unfitness to Stand Trial
• 4. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 4 - Defendants Acquitted on Account of Unsoundness of Mind (including Schedule 1)
• 5. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 5 - Mentally Impaired Defendants
• 6. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 6 - Mentally Impaired Defendants Review Board
• 7. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to Part 7 - Miscellaneous
• Z. Synthesis of Matters Pertaining to a Mental Health Court

Final Report

Final Report of the recommendations of the review of:

• The Governments Response to the Reviews Recommendations
• Speech by the Chair of the Review - Professor Holman
• Mental Health Act 1996
• Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996