New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 253

253 Additional provisions relating to members

(1) The members (including the President and any Deputy President) are to be appointed from the following classes of persons:

(a) Australian lawyers,

(b) psychiatrists,

(c) persons having, in the opinion of the Governor, other suitable qualifications or experience, including at least 1 person selected from a group of persons who are nominated by consumer organisations.

(2) The members are to include 1 or more women and 1 or more persons of ethnic background and a different person is to be appointed to satisfy each of those qualifications, even though a person so appointed may possess both of those qualifications.

(3) If, at the time at which an appointment is required to be made of a person selected from a group of persons who are nominated by consumer organisations no such group has been nominated, the Governor may appoint to be a member, instead of the person required to be appointed from the group, a person who, in the opinion of the Governor, has suitable qualifications or experience.