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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

48. Revocation of licence

 

(1) The manager of a treatment centre may revoke an involuntary service user’s licence and direct that he or she return to the treatment centre if the management structure has reason to believe that such service user—
(a) is failing to comply with any of the conditions of his or her release; or
(b) has not proved himself or herself capable of adjusting properly to community life.

 

(2) If the need for the return of an involuntary service user to the treatment centre is of such a nature that it cannot be deferred until the management structure has dealt with the matter, the manager may exercise all the powers of the management structure in terms of this section.

 

(3) An involuntary service user recalled to a treatment centre and who fails to return on the return date, must be regarded as having absconded and may be apprehended in terms of section 52(2).

 

(4) An involuntary service user apprehended in terms of section 52(2) must be admitted in custody until he or she can be returned to the treatment centre in question.

 

(5) A service user recalled to a treatment centre in terms of subsection (1) or (2) and who has returned to such centre must be admitted to that centre until he or she is released or discharged in terms of this Act.