Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Inspections and inquiries - Inquiry by High Court Judge

108: Other remedies still available

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"You can still get help in other ways if you're being kept somewhere unfairly."

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If you are being kept somewhere against your will, you can still use other ways to get help. Nothing in this part of the law stops you from using these other options. You can use them if you think you are being unlawfully detained, which means being kept somewhere without a good reason.

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Part 7Inspections and inquiries
Inquiry by High Court Judge

108Other remedies still available

  1. Nothing in this subpart prevents the exercise of any other remedy or proceeding available by or on behalf of any person who is, or is alleged to be, unlawfully detained, confined, or imprisoned.

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