Western Australian Current Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 596

596 .         Authorisation of public hospitals (1996 Act s. 21)

        (1)         This section applies in relation to a public hospital, or part of a public hospital, in respect of which an order under the 1996 Act section 21 was in force immediately before commencement day.

        (2)         The hospital or part of the hospital is taken to be an authorised hospital as defined in section 4 that is authorised by the order to which subsection (3) applies.

        (3)         The order referred to in subsection (1) is taken to be an order made under section 542.

        [Section 596 inserted: No. 25 of 2014 s. 9.]

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