Principles Of Mental Health Act 2016
The Mental Health Act 2016 of Queensland has three main objects and two principles. One of these principles applies to persons with mental illness. The three main objects of the act are (Mental Health Act 2016):
1. To improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of persons who have a mental illness who do not have the capacity to consent to be treated.
2. To enable persons to be diverted form the criminal justice system if found to have been of unsound mind at the time of committing an unlawful act or to be unfit for trial, and
3. To protect the community if persons diverted from the criminal justice system may be at risk of harming others. There is also a principle that applies to persons with mental illness that support and promote the
1. To improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of persons who have a mental illness who do not have the capacity to consent to be treated.
2. To enable persons to be diverted form the criminal justice system if found to have been of unsound mind at the time of committing an unlawful act or to be unfit for trial, and
3. To protect the community if persons diverted from the criminal justice system may be at risk of harming others. There is also a principle that applies to persons with mental illness that support and promote the