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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

47. Involuntary service user of treatment centre may be released on licence or discharged

 

(1) The manager of a treatment centre may release, and must, if so directed by the Director-General, release an involuntary service user on licence subject to such conditions as the manager may stipulate.

 

(2) The manager may vary the conditions of such release after giving notice thereof to such service user.

 

(3) An involuntary service user who has been released on licence remains under such supervision of a social worker as may be prescribed or a person approved by the Director-General, until such release expires or is cancelled in terms of this Act or he or she is discharged in terms of this Act.

 

(4) The Director-General, upon an order made by the magistrate, must discharge an involuntary service user from the effect of any order made under this Act at any time prior to the expiry of the period for which he or she was released on licence.