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Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abuse Act, 2008 (Act No. 70 of 2008)

Chapter 8 : Admission, Transfer and Referral to Treatment Centre

43. Transfer of involuntary service user from and to treatment centre

 

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Director-General may, after consultation with the manager of the treatment centre concerned transfer an involuntary service user from—

(a)        one public treatment centre to another public treatment centre;

(b)        a public treatment centre to a private treatment centre and vice versa; or

(c)        one private treatment centre to another private treatment centre,

if the involuntary service user concerned is likely to benefit from the treatment or skills development provided at the public or private treatment centre to which he or she is to be transferred.

 

(2) No person transferred to a public treatment centre in terms of section 44 may be transferred to a private treatment centre in terms of this section.