(1)If a person is confined under section 249 or 252 in a psychiatric institution, prison or other suitable place of safe custody, 2 of the visitors of a psychiatric institution,2012institution2012 may, subject to subsection (2), visit him2021the person2021 to ascertain his or her 2021state of mind.
Section history
Section 253 — Visiting of person confined under section 249 or 252, or released under section 249, 252 or 255 on any condition
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 253 — Original text to 15 November 2022superseded
(2)The person confined under section 249 or 252 must be visited at least once every 6 months and the visitors must make a special report to the Minister as to the person’s state of mind.
Section 253 — From 15 November 2022 (current)rewritten by Criminal Justice Reform Act 2018
(1)This section applies to a person who is confined pursuant to an order under section 249(9)(b) or (c)(i) or 252(6)(a) or (7)(b) in a psychiatric institution, a prison or any other suitable place of safe custody, or who is released pursuant to an order under section 249(2) or (9)(c)(ii), 252(6)(b) or 255(1)(b) or (8)(b) on any condition.
(2)At least once every 6 months, 2 of the visitors of a psychiatric institution must visit the person to ascertain the following matters:
(a)the person’s state of mind or physical or mental condition;
(b)whether there is any risk that the person may injure himself or any other person, if the person is or continues to be released; and
(c)if there is any such risk —
(i)the extent of that risk;
(ii)the conditions (if any) that may be imposed to minimise that risk; and
(iii)the extent to which each such condition (if any) will minimise that risk.
(3)The visitors mentioned in subsection (2) must, after ascertaining the matters mentioned in that subsection —
(a)in any case where the person was released pursuant to an order of the court under section 249(2) — report those matters to the court and the Minister2025; or
(b)in any other case — report those matters to the Minister.