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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - Requirement to stay in designated facilities or places - Leave for care recipients no longer subject to criminal justice system

65: Care manager may grant leave

You could also call this:

"The care manager can let you leave the facility for a short time if they think it's okay."

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If you are a care recipient who no longer has to deal with the criminal justice system, but you still have to stay in a facility, the care manager in charge can let you leave the facility for up to 2 weeks. The care manager gets to decide the rules you have to follow while you are on leave. The care manager can let you stay away from the facility for another 2 weeks, but you cannot be away for more than 4 weeks in a row. The care manager can cancel your leave at any time by telling the person looking after you, or if there is no one looking after you, by telling you directly, you can compare this to a previous law.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
Requirement to stay in designated facilities or places: Leave for care recipients no longer subject to criminal justice system

65Care manager may grant leave

  1. Where a care recipient no longer subject to the criminal justice system is required to stay in a facility, the care manager in charge of the facility may authorise the care recipient to be on leave from the facility for a period of not more than 2 weeks on any terms and conditions that the care manager specifies.

  2. The care manager may extend the period of authorised leave for a further period of not more than 2 weeks; but no care recipient may be absent under this section for a continuous period of more than 4 weeks.

  3. The care manager may, at any time during the period of leave, cancel the leave by notifying the person who has undertaken the care of the care recipient during the period of leave or, if there is no such person, by notifying the care recipient.

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