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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Procedural provisions - Persons entitled to be heard

118: Specialist assessors and care managers entitled to appear and be heard on certain applications

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"Care managers and specialist assessors can speak up in court about someone's care."

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

If you are a care manager or a specialist assessor for someone who needs care, you have the right to go to court and say what you think. This happens when the court is making decisions about the care of the person you are helping. You can do this when the court is looking at applications to cancel, extend, or change a compulsory care order. You must have done a recent assessment of the person's status under section 79 to be able to do this.

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Part 9Procedural provisions
Persons entitled to be heard

118Specialist assessors and care managers entitled to appear and be heard on certain applications

  1. A care recipient's care manager and a specialist assessor who has completed the most recent certificate under section 79 relating to the status of the care recipient are each entitled to appear and be heard at every hearing of—

  2. an application under section 84 for a cancellation of a care recipient's court order:
    1. an application under section 85 for an extension of a compulsory care order:
      1. an application under section 86 for a variation of a compulsory care order.