New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DRUG AND ALCOHOL TREATMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 4

4 Application of Act

(1) This Act applies in an area prescribed by the regulations.

Note: See section 55A which provides that the Inebriates Act 1912 continues to apply in relation to a person detained under an order made under that Act immediately before the commencement of a regulation made under subsection (1).

(2) The Inebriates Act 1912 does not apply in that area.

(3) However, despite subsections (1) and (2), this Act does not apply, and the Inebriates Act 1912 does apply, to minors.

(4) Nothing in this Act affects the operation of the following:

(a) the Mental Health Act 1990 ,

(b) the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990 ,

(c) the Public Health Act 1991 ,

(d) the Guardianship Act 1987 ,

(e) the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .