New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 228

228 Appointment of official visitors

(1) The Minister must, by instrument in writing, appoint official visitors for an area health service.

(2) A person may be appointed as an official visitor if the person is a medical practitioner or is otherwise a suitably qualified or interested person.

(3) At least one of the official visitors for an area health service must be a medical practitioner.

(4) In this section:
"area health service" means:

(a) an area health service constituted under the Health Services Act 1997 , or

(b) Justice Health, or

(c) The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children.