Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Any medical
officer or any nurse duly authorised in this behalf by the Executive Director,
Personal Health may examine medically and physically any child attending any
school or child care centre, and such child shall submit to, and the parents
or guardians of such child shall permit such examination as the medical
officer or nurse deems necessary.
(2) Any school dental
therapist employed in a school dental service, or any dentist authorised to do
so by the Executive Director, Personal Health, may examine the teeth of any
such child, and the child shall submit to, and the parents or guardians of
such child shall permit, the examination.
(3) Any medical
officer or any nurse duly authorised in this behalf by the Executive Director,
Personal Health who finds that any such child is in an unclean or verminous
condition may, by writing under the hand of such medical officer or nurse,
notify any parent or guardian of the child of the fact, and require such
parent or guardian to remedy such condition forthwith, and to keep such child
clean or free from vermin.
(4) In addition to
making the requisition mentioned in subsection (3), the medical officer
or nurse may, by writing under the hand of such officer or nurse, require the
parent or guardian to keep the child’s hair cut short to the
satisfaction of the officer or nurse or of the medical officer of health of
the local government.
(5) Every such
requisition as is mentioned in subsection (3) or subsection (4)
shall, in so far as it is of a continuing character, remain in force for
12 months.
(6) A parent or
guardian who does not comply with a requisition made under subsection (3)
or (4) commits an offence.
[Section 337 amended by No. 5 of 1922
s. 8; No. 30 of 1932 s. 41; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1);
No. 102 of 1973 s. 26; No. 30 of 1982 s. 12; No. 28
of 1984 s. 45; No. 80 of 1987 s. 155; No. 14 of 1996
s. 4; No. 64 of 1996 s. 18; No. 35 of 2010 s. 73.]