Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1927 - SECT 31

31 .         Who may be admitted to public hospital

        (1)         A person is to be admitted as a patient to a public hospital if in the opinion of a medical or other officer in charge the person requires treatment of the kind provided by the hospital.

        (2)         Nothing in subsection (1) prevents the admission to any public hospital maintained under the provisions of this Act of any person in urgent need of medical or nursing attention.

        [Section 31 amended by No. 85 of 1983 s. 7; No. 53 of 1985 s. 24; No. 103 of 1994 s. 12.]