Victorian Numbered Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 (NO. 26 OF 2014) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to provide a legislative scheme for the assessment of persons who appear to have mental illness and for the treatment of persons with mental illness; and

        (b)     to provide for the appointment of the chief psychiatrist; and

        (c)     to establish the Mental Health Tribunal; and

        (d)     to establish the Mental Health Complaints Commissioner; and

        (e)     to continue the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health; and

        (f)     to provide for the appointment and functions of community visitors; and

        (g)     to repeal the Mental Health Act 1986 ; and

        (h)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 and the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 ; and

              (i)     to make consequential and statute law amendments to other Acts.