Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1996 - SECT 159

159 .         Affected person to be given copy of order

        (1)         A psychiatrist who makes —

            (a)         an order for the detention of a person under section 37(1)(b), 39(1), 43(2)(a), 49(3)(a), 50 or 70(1); or

            (b)         an order for the apprehension of a person under section 41; or

            (c)         a community treatment order; or

            (d)         an order varying or revoking a community treatment order; or

            (e)         an order that a person is no longer an involuntary patient,

                is to give a copy of the order to the person concerned.

        (2)         A senior mental health practitioner who makes an order for the detention of a person under section 30(3) is to give a copy of the order to the person.

        (3)         A person who makes an order for the apprehension of a person under section 34 is to give a copy of the order to the person.