Western Australian Current Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 292

292 .         Provision of information or involvement not in patient’s best interests

        (1)         A carer or close family member of a patient is not entitled under section 287(2) or 289(2) to be provided with particular information or involved in a particular matter if the patient’s psychiatrist reasonably believes that it is not in the best interests of the patient for the carer or close family member to be provided with that information or involved in that matter.

        (2)         A patient’s psychiatrist who decides under subsection (1) that a carer or close family member of the patient is not entitled to be provided with particular information or involved in a particular matter must —

            (a)         file a record of the decision and the reasons for it; and

            (b)         give a copy to each of —

                  (i)         the patient; and

                  (ii)         the Chief Mental Health Advocate.

        Note for this section:

                For the purpose of deciding under section 292(1) what is or is not in the best interests of a patient, Part 2 Division 3 applies.