Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017

Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction - Administration and public assistance - Approved providers

93: Reporting duties of approved providers

You could also call this:

"Telling authorities about what happens at treatment centres"

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The Director or the Area Director can ask you, in writing, to tell them about things that happen at your treatment centre. You have to tell them about the things they ask for within the time they say. They might ask you about specific patients or groups of patients. You must give them the information they ask for on time. If they do not say exactly how they want the information, you have to give it to them in the way the Director says. The Director or the Area Director can ask you for information about the work you do under this Act, and you have to give it to them when they ask.

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92: Designation of approved providers, or

"Who can be chosen to help people with substance addiction problems?"

94: Responsible clinicians, or

"Who is in charge of your care when you're getting help for substance addiction"

Part 2Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction
Administration and public assistance: Approved providers

93Reporting duties of approved providers

The Director or the Area Director may, by written notice, require any approved provider to inform the Director or the Area Director, within the time specified in the notice, about any matter in relation to any functions under this Act that have been, or are required to be, performed in a treatment centre operated by the approved provider.
Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the information required under that subsection may relate to identified patients or to a class or classes of patients.
An approved provider must provide the information within the time specified in the notice and, if there is no prescribed form for the information, in any form specified by the Director for the purpose.