Western Australian Current Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 644

644 .         Appointment to Mental Health Tribunal (1996 Act s. 126 and Sch. 1)

        (1)         The person who, immediately before commencement day, held office under the 1996 Act section 126(1)(a) as the President of the Mental Health Review Board is taken be appointed under section 475 as the President of the Mental Health Tribunal.

        (2)         A person who, immediately before commencement day, held office under the 1996 Act section 126(1)(b) as a member of the Mental Health Review Board is taken to be appointed under section 476(1) as a member of the Mental Health Tribunal.

        (3)         A person to whom subsection (1) or (2) applies holds office under this Act —

            (a)         for the period, beginning on commencement day, that is equal to the balance of the person’s term of office under the 1996 Act that remained immediately before commencement day; and

            (b)         otherwise on the same terms and conditions (including as to remuneration) as those on which the person held office under the 1996 Act immediately before commencement day.

        [Section 644 inserted: No. 25 of 2014 s. 9.]

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