South Australian Numbered Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (REVIEW) AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO 34 OF 2016) - SECT 6

6—Amendment of section 4—Application of Act

        (1)         Section 4(1)—after paragraph (b) insert:

            (c)         an obligation under this Act to give information to a person (including information about the person's illness, any order that applies to the person, his or her legal rights, the treatment and other services that are to be provided or offered to the person and what alternatives are available) is, if the person is a child under 16 years of age, to be treated as an obligation to give the information to a parent or guardian of the child.

        (2)         Section 4—after subsection (2) insert:

        (3)         Subject to an express provision of this Act or of any other Act, this Act is in addition to and does not derogate from—

            (a)         the Advance Care Directives Act 2013

; and

            (b)         the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995

; and

            (c)         the Guardianship and Administration Act 1993

.