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MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2022 - NOTES

Version No. 001

No. 39 of 2022
Version incorporating amendments as at
1 September 2023

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Version No. 001

Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022

No. 39 of 2022

Version incorporating amendments as at
1 September 2023

Endnotes

    1     General information

See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 23 June 2022

Legislative Council: 4 August 2022

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to re-enact, with amendments, the law relating to the treatment of persons living with mental illness or experiencing psychological distress, to repeal the Mental Health Act 2014 and the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2021, to consequentially amend other Acts and for other purposes."

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 was assented to on 6 September 2022 and came into operation on 1 September 2023: section 2(2).

Section 605 never proclaimed, repealed on 9 August 2023 by section 37 of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Amendment Act 2023, No. 20/2023.

    2     Table of Amendments

This publication incorporates amendments made to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 by Acts and subordinate instruments.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing Amendment Act 2023, No. 20/2023

Assent Date:

8.8.23

Commencement Date:

Ss 349 on 9.8.23: s. 2(1)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022

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    3     Explanatory details

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