New South Wales Repealed Acts

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 302

302 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) In particular, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to:

(a) the design, construction, equipping, furnishing, maintenance, administration and staffing of, and the provision of facilities and services by, hospitals, and

(b) the functions, responsibilities, obligations and liabilities of medical superintendents and medical officers, and

(c) the exercise by the Principal official visitor and the official visitors of their functions, and

(d) matters relating to meetings of the Tribunal, to inquiries before Magistrates under this Act and to meetings of the Psychosurgery Review Board, and

(e) the establishment and functions of a registry or registries to assist in the administration of the Tribunal and the Psychosurgery Review Board and in the holding of inquiries under this Act, and

(f) the practice and procedure of the Tribunal, and

(g) protecting the privacy of patients and persons under detention in hospitals, and

(h) standards of patient care, and

(i) the establishment, in relation to a hospital, of a patient care review committee and the functions of such a committee, and

(j) matters relating to the rights and privileges of patients and persons under detention in hospitals, including matters relating to the information to be given, on their admission to a hospital or otherwise, to patients and persons as to their rights and privileges as patients or as persons under detention in hospitals, and

(k) matters relating to the visiting of patients and persons under detention in hospitals, and

(l) prescribing the forms required by this Act, and

(m) prescribing the keeping and form of such books, records, registers or other documents, or the furnishing of such reports or statistics, as may be necessary or convenient for the administration of this Act, including records of attendances of competent interpreters.

(3) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.