Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1996 - SECT 4

4 .         Mental illness, defined

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act a person has a mental illness if the person suffers from a disturbance of thought, mood, volition, perception, orientation or memory that impairs judgment or behaviour to a significant extent.

        (2)         However a person does not have a mental illness by reason only of one or more of the following, that is, that the person —

            (a)         holds, or refuses to hold, a particular religious, philosophical, or political belief or opinion;

            (b)         is sexually promiscuous, or has a particular sexual preference;

            (c)         engages in immoral or indecent conduct;

            (d)         has an intellectual disability;

            (e)         takes drugs or alcohol;

            (f)         demonstrates anti-social behaviour.