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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Authority to take and detain care recipients - Authority to detain under court orders

109: Authority to admit and detain under orders

You could also call this:

"When a court says so, a care manager can help someone get care and stay in a facility."

Illustration for Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

If you are a care manager, you have the authority to admit someone to a facility. This must be in line with the person's court order or a notice given by the co-ordinator under section 63(2). You must follow the rules set out for the person's care. You have the power to take steps to keep the person in the facility while the rules are in place.

You need to make sure the person stays in the facility during this time. This is part of your job as a care manager. You must do this in a reasonable way.

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Part 8Authority to take and detain care recipients
Authority to detain under court orders

109Authority to admit and detain under orders

  1. A care manager has authority—

  2. to admit a care recipient to a facility in accordance with the care recipient's court order or a notice of designation given by the co-ordinator under section 63(2); and
    1. to take all reasonable steps to detain that care recipient in the facility during the period the designation is in force.

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