Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1996 - SECT 12

12 .         Psychiatrists’ decisions as to involuntary patients, review of etc.

        (1)         The Chief Psychiatrist may at any time —

            (a)         review any decision of a psychiatrist as to the treatment of any involuntary patient; and

            (b)         vary or rescind the decision or substitute another decision for it.

        (2)         A psychiatrist is to comply with any instruction given to him or her by the Chief Psychiatrist in exercise of the powers in subsection (1).

        (3)         Nothing in this section —

            (a)         limits the operation of Part 5; or

            (b)         takes away from any requirement under that Part or any other law for the obtaining of a person’s consent to treatment.