New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 11

11 Certain words or conduct may not indicate mental illness or disorder

(1) A person is not a mentally ill person or a mentally disordered person merely because of any one or more of the following:

(a) that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express or has expressed or refused or failed to express a particular political opinion or belief,

(b) that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express or has expressed or refused or failed to express a particular religious opinion or belief,

(c) that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express or has expressed or refused or failed to express a particular philosophy,

(d) that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express or has expressed or refused or failed to express a particular sexual preference or sexual orientation,

(e) that the person engages in or refuses or fails to engage in, or has engaged in or refused or failed to engage in, a particular political activity,

(f) that the person engages in or refuses or fails to engage in, or has engaged in or refused or failed to engage in, a particular religious activity,

(g) that the person engages in or has engaged in sexual promiscuity,

(h) that the person engages in or has engaged in immoral conduct,

(i) that the person engages in or has engaged in illegal conduct,

(j) that the person has developmental disability of mind,

(k) that the person takes or has taken alcohol or any other drug,

(l) that the person engages in or has engaged in anti-social behaviour.

(2) Nothing in this Chapter prevents, in relation to a person who takes or has taken alcohol or any other drug, the serious or permanent physiological, biochemical or psychological effects of drug taking from being regarded as an indication that a person is suffering from mental illness or other condition of disability of mind.