Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ACT 1911 - SECT 338

338 .         Parent or guardian to provide medical or surgical treatment for child in certain cases

        (1)         Any parent or guardian who, after being notified by a medical officer of some physical defect in a child, which defect requires medical or surgical attention, fails or neglects to secure or provide such attention, if such failure or neglect endangers or is likely to endanger the life or the health of such child, commits an offence:

                Provided that no prosecution shall be instituted for a breach of this section without the approval of the Executive Director, Personal Health and until the child has been examined by a medical officer, acting in consultation with a private medical practitioner.

        (2)         It shall be the duty of any such child to submit to, and of the parents or guardians of such child to permit any examination necessary for the purposes of this section.

        [Section 338 inserted by No. 30 of 1932 s. 42; amended by No. 28 of 1984 s. 45; No. 80 of 1987 s. 156.]

[ 338A.         Deleted by No. 116 of 1982 s. 36.]