Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1927 - SECT 26DA

26DA .         Private hospital not to treat etc. mentally ill unless licence endorsed

        (1)         A person shall not conduct or manage a private hospital in which any person is detained for the treatment of mental illness unless the licence for that hospital is endorsed under this section.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         A licence may be endorsed by the CEO to allow persons to be received and admitted to the hospital under the Mental Health Act 1996 and to be detained as involuntary patients under that Act.

        (3)         An application may be made to the CEO for an endorsement under this section —

            (a)         on the application for a licence; or

            (b)         on an application under regulations referred to in subsection (5).

        (4)         The CEO may make an endorsement under this section subject to any condition or restriction.

        (5)         Regulations may be made under section 26O making provision for and in respect of applications for endorsements under this section, including the payment of fees in connection with the application.

        [Section 26DA inserted by No. 69 of 1996 s. 44; amended by No. 28 of 2006 s. 264.]