Western Australian Current Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 572

572 .         Powers of Agency’s CEO

        (1)         In this section —

        corresponding overseas authority means a person in another country who has functions corresponding to the CEO’s functions under this Act;

        interstate authority means —

            (a)         a department of the Public Service of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory; or

            (b)         an agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory; or

            (c)         a body (whether corporate or unincorporate), or the holder of an office, post or position, established or continued in existence for a public purpose under a law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory;

        mental health service —

            (a)         includes —

                  (i)         a private psychiatric hostel; and

                  (ii)         an individual, a group of individuals or a body (whether corporate or unincorporate) that provides a service specifically for people who have or may have a mental illness, or the carers of people who have or may have a mental illness, wholly or partly from funds paid to the individual, group or body by the Agency;

                but

            (b)         does not include the carer of a person who has or may have a mental illness;

        relevant information means information (including personal information) that, in the CEO’s opinion, is or is likely to be relevant to any of the following —

            (a)         the treatment or care of a person, or the persons in a class of person, who has or may have a mental illness;

            (b)         the health, safety or wellbeing of a person who has or may have a mental illness;

            (c)         the safety of another person with respect to which there is a serious risk because of a person who has or may have a mental illness;

            (d)         the administration or enforcement of this Act;

            (e)         the implementation and evaluation of programmes managed by the Agency for the purpose of coordinating the care and support of people who have a mental illness;

            (f)         the planning for, and evaluation of, mental health services;

            (g)         epidemiological analysis of mental illness and mental health research;

        State authority means any of these persons or bodies —

            (a)         the Minister;

            (b)         a department of the Public Service;

            (c)         a State agency or instrumentality;

            (d)         a local government, regional local government or regional subsidiary;

            (e)         a body (whether corporate or unincorporate), or the holder of an office, post or position, established or continued for a public purpose under a written law.

        (2)         The CEO may disclose relevant information to any of these persons or bodies —

            (a)         a State authority;

            (b)         an interstate authority;

            (c)         a corresponding overseas authority;

            (d)         a mental health service.

        (3)         The CEO may request any of these persons or bodies to disclose relevant information to the CEO —

            (a)         a State authority;

            (b)         an interstate authority;

            (c)         a corresponding overseas authority;

            (d)         a mental health service.

        [Section 572 amended: No. 26 of 2016 s. 74.]