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MENTAL HEALTH AMENDMENT BILL 2015

                    Western Australia


     Mental Health Amendment Bill 2015

                       Contents

1.      Short title                       2
2.      Commencement                      2
3.      Act amended                       2
4.      Section 4 amended                 2
5.      Section 186 amended               2
6.      Section 420 amended               2
7.      Section 591 amended               3
8.      Section 592 amended               3




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                      LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL


        Mental Health Amendment Bill 2015

                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Mental Health Act 2014.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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1    1.       Short title
2             This is the Mental Health Amendment Act 2015.

3    2.       Commencement
4             This Act comes into operation as follows --
5              (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act
6                    receives the Royal Assent;
7              (b) sections 3 to 6 -- on the day on which the Mental
8                    Health Act 2014, other than sections 1 and 2, comes into
9                    operation;
10             (c) sections 7 and 8 -- on the day on which the Mental
11                   Health Legislation Amendment Act 2014 Part 3 comes
12                   into operation.

13   3.       Act amended
14            This Act amends the Mental Health Act 2014.

15   4.       Section 4 amended
16            In section 4 delete the definition of psychiatrist and insert:
17

18                  psychiatrist means a medical practitioner who is --
19                    (a) a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New
20                         Zealand College of Psychiatrists; or
21                    (b) a person, or a person in a class of person,
22                         prescribed by the regulations for this definition;
23


24   5.       Section 186 amended
25            In section 186(2)(a) delete "authorised".

26   6.       Section 420 amended
27            In section 420 delete "therapy".


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1    7.   Section 591 amended
2         In section 591(3)(a) delete "Public Sector Management
3         (Redeployment and Redundancy) Regulations 1994" and insert:
4

5         Public Sector Management (Redeployment and Redundancy)
6         Regulations 2014
7


8    8.   Section 592 amended
9         In section 592(1) delete "section 520(5)." and insert:
10

11        section 520(6).
12


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