Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The person in
charge of a hospital may, with the written consent of the Chief Psychiatrist,
make an order (a transfer approval order ) approving the transfer of an
interstate inpatient who is detained at, or who is absent without leave as
described in section 551(3) from, an interstate mental health service to the
hospital.
(2) The transfer
approval order must be in the approved form and must include the following
—
(a) the
interstate patient’s name;
(b) the
interstate mental health service from which the interstate inpatient is to be
transferred;
(c) the
hospital to which the interstate inpatient is to be transferred;
(d) the
date and time when the order is made;
(e) the
reasons for the approval;
(f) the
name, qualifications and signature of the person in charge of the hospital.
(3) The person in
charge of the hospital must, as soon as practicable, transmit a copy of each
of the consent and the transfer approval order to the person in charge of the
interstate mental health service.
(4) On the interstate
inpatient’s admission by the hospital as an inpatient, the interstate
inpatient treatment order is taken to be an inpatient treatment order made
under this Act.
(5) The person in
charge of the hospital must, as soon as practicable after the interstate
inpatient is admitted as an inpatient, file the consent and the transfer
approval order and give a copy of each to the interstate inpatient.
(6) The making of a
transfer approval order under subsection (1) is an event to which Part 9
applies and the person in charge of the hospital is the person responsible
under that Part for notification of that event.