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The Mental Health Review Tribunal is a specialist tribunal established in the Northern Territory, a territory of Australia which has jurisdiction to deal with mental health issues in the territory. It has exclusive jurisdiction in terms of most mental health issues, although it may share jurisdiction on some issue with other courts, such as the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. The tribunal came into existence in 1998 and it is located on Level 3, 9–11 Cavenagh Street, Darwin. ==Constitution== The tribunal is established under the Mental Health & Related Services Act (NT). The act gives the tribunal a wide range of powers to deal with the treatment and care of people with a mental illness. The Administrator of the Northern Territory may appoint members to the tribunal. To be appointed, a person must be either: * a legal practitioner who has not less than 5 years experience as a solicitor or barrister; or * a medical practitioner; or *a person who has a special interest or expertise in mental illness or mental disturbances. From those members, the Administrator may appoint one to be the president of the tribunal. At present there is no permanent or full-time president of the tribunal.〔Annual Report 2005 p5〕 Most legal members are either current or retired stipendiary magistrates appointed in the territory. All medical members are interstate based psychiatrists who also undertake similar tribunal duties in their state. As a result, all sittings involve video or telephone conferencing.〔Annual Report 2005, p5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mental Health Review Tribunal (NT)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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