New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MENTAL HEALTH REGULATION 2007 - REG 38

38 Withdrawals from patients’ accounts

(1) If, in the opinion of the responsible person, a patient is incapable, through infirmity arising from disease or age or other reason, of withdrawing and safeguarding money from the patient’s account, the responsible person may authorise the withdrawal of such sum from the patient’s account as the responsible person considers necessary for the purchase of goods and services for the benefit, use or enjoyment of the patient.

(2) A certificate, signed by 2 persons employed on the staff of a mental health facility, to the effect that the goods or services represented by the sum withdrawn under this section have been received by the patient for the benefit, use or enjoyment of the patient is evidence that the patient has received those goods or services and that they are for the benefit, use or enjoyment of the patient.