Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Chief
Psychiatrist is responsible for overseeing the treatment and care of these
people —
(a) all
voluntary patients being provided with treatment or care by a mental health
service;
(b) all
involuntary patients;
(c) all
supervised persons required under the CLMI Act to be detained at an authorised
hospital;
(ca) a
patient who is a person required to undergo treatment (as defined in section 4
of this Act) as a condition of one of the following under the CLMI Act —
(i)
a community supervision order;
(ii)
an interim community supervision order;
(iii)
an extended community supervision order;
(iv)
a leave of absence order;
(v)
an interim disposition under the CLMI Act section
205(1)(b);
(d) all
persons referred under section 26(2) or (3)(a) or 36(2) for an examination to
be conducted by a psychiatrist at an authorised hospital or other place;
(e) all
persons under an order made under section 55(1)(c) or 61(1)(c) to enable an
examination to be conducted by a psychiatrist at an authorised hospital.
(2) The Chief
Psychiatrist must discharge that responsibility by —
(a)
publishing under section 547(2) standards for the treatment and care to be
provided by mental health services to the persons referred to in subsection
(1); and
(b)
overseeing compliance with those standards.
[Section 515 amended: No. 10 of 2023 s. 383.]