Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES (MENTAL IMPAIRMENT AND UNFITNESS TO BE TRIED) ACT 1997 - SECT 73C

For the purposes of this Part, a person is to be taken to have given informed consent to a transfer or interim disposition only if he or she gives written consent to the transfer or disposition (as the case requires) after—

        (a)     he or she has been given a clear explanation of the process involved in the transfer or disposition and the reasons for the transfer or disposition, containing sufficient information to enable him or her to make a balanced judgment; and

        (b)     any relevant questions asked by him or her have been answered and he or she has understood the answers.

S. 73D inserted by No. 7/2002 s. 30.