Western Australian Current Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 604

604 .         Detention of voluntary inpatient admitted to authorised hospital

        (1)         This section applies in relation to a voluntary inpatient who is under a referral to which section 600(1) applies.

        (2)         Subject to this section, Part 6 Division 3 Subdivision 1 applies in relation to the voluntary inpatient.

        (3)         The voluntary inpatient is taken to be detained under section 53(1)(a).

        (4)         The period for which the voluntary inpatient can be detained under section 53(1)(a) expires at —

            (a)         if an order to which section 600(3) applies is in force in respect of the voluntary inpatient — the end of 24 hours after the time at which the order was made under the 1996 Act section 30(3); or

            (b)         otherwise — the end of 24 hours after the time at which the referral was made under the 1996 Act section 29(1) as applied by section 30(1) of that Act.

        [Section 604 inserted: No. 25 of 2014 s. 9.]