Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2006 (108 of 2006)

Schedule 3   Amendment of the Social Security Act 1991

37   At the end of section 1061JG

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Note: A person does not cease to be in gaol merely because he or she is transferred between a prison and a psychiatric institution where he or she is lawfully detained while still under sentence. See subsection 23(5).

(2) Disregard subsection 23(9) in determining whether a person meets the condition in paragraph (1)(a) of this section.

Note: Subsection 23(9) provides that the confinement of a person in a psychiatric institution when the person is undertaking a course of rehabilitation is not to be taken to be psychiatric confinement.