New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DRUG AND ALCOHOL TREATMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 55A

55A Transitional provision for declaration of areas

(1) This section applies if:

(a) an area is prescribed under section 4 (1), and

(b) immediately before the area is prescribed, a person is detained in an institution in that area under an order made under the Inebriates Act 1912 .

(2) Despite section 4, while the order remains in force:

(a) the Inebriates Act 1912 continues to apply to the person, and

(b) this Act does not apply in relation to the person.