Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1996 - SECT 21

21 .         Public hospitals, authorisation of

        (1)         The Governor may by order published in the Gazette  —

            (a)         authorise a public hospital, or part of a public hospital, for —

                  (i)         the reception of persons; and

                  (ii)         the admission of persons as involuntary patients,

                under this Act; and

            (b)         revoke or amend an order so made.

        (2)         If a place ceases to be an authorised hospital because an order is revoked, every person received into, or admitted as an involuntary patient to, the authorised hospital is to be transferred in accordance with the regulations to another authorised hospital.