Western Australian Current Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 595

595 .         Authorised mental health practitioners (1996 Act s. 20)

        (1)         This section applies in relation to a person —

            (a)         in respect of whom an order under the 1996 Act section 20 was in force immediately before commencement day; and

            (b)         who is a mental health practitioner as defined in section 4.

        (2)         The person is taken to be an authorised mental health practitioner as defined in section 4 —

            (a)         who is designated as such by the order to which subsection (3) applies; and

            (b)         who, in performing the functions of an authorised mental health practitioner, is subject to the limits to which subsection (3) applies.

        (3)         The order referred to in subsection (1)(a) is taken to be an order made under section 539 specifying as the limits within which the functions of an authorised mental health practitioner can be performed by the person the limits that were specified under the 1996 Act section 20 immediately before commencement day as the limits within which the person could have performed the functions of an authorised mental health practitioner under that Act.

        [Section 595 inserted: No. 25 of 2014 s. 9.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 25 of 2014 s. 9.]