Mental Health Act 20266

Regulations concerning care plans

188. Without prejudice to the generality of section 3 , the Minister may make regulations concerning care plans which may provide for any or all of the following matters:

(a) the form of a care plan;

(b) the resources required to achieve any goals set out in a care plan;

(c) the review of a care plan by a multidisciplinary team;

(d) the involvement of the adult or child the subject of a care plan, and, where appropriate, the parents, or either of them, or guardian of a child the subject of a care plan or the Agency in the development and review of the plan;

(e) the involvement, as appropriate, of nominated persons or other persons where the person the subject of the care plan consents;

(f) the retention and maintenance of a record of a care plan;

(g) access to the care plan by the adult or child, the subject of the care plan, or the child’s parents or guardian or the Agency, where appropriate;

(h) any particulars related to matters that members of a person’s multidisciplinary team can develop, review, amend or update in his or her care plan;

(i) any other matters which are necessary or expedient for the purposes of giving effect to this Chapter.