Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENCY ACT 1968

- Act 61 of 1968
- Royal Assent 5 December 1968

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I - Preliminary

   1.      1. Short title and commencement
   2.      2. Interpretation
   3.      3. Meaning of alcohol dependency
   4.      4. Meaning of drugs and drug dependency
   5.      5. Informal admission of patients
   6.      6. Saving for Mental Health Act 1996

   PART II - Administration Division I - Alcohol and Drug Dependency
   Tribunal

   7.      7. Alcohol and Drug Dependency Tribunal
   8.      8. Membership of Tribunal
   9.      9. Functions and powers of Tribunal
   10.     10. Hearing and determining applications
   11.     11. Staff and facilities
   12.     12. 
   13.     13. 
   14.     14. 

           Division II - Treatment centres, welfare officers, &c.

   15.     15. Treatment centres and the superintendents thereof
   16.     16. Welfare officers

   PART III -
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

   17.     17. 
   18.     18. 
   19.     19. 
   20.     20. 
   21.     21. 
   22.     22. 

   PART IV - Patients Admitted to Treatment Centres Division I -
   Admission on application

   23.     23. Admission applications
   24.     24. Provisions as to applications other than personal applications
   25.     25. Rectification of admission applications and medical
           recommendations
   26.     26. Effect of admission applications
   27.     27. Duration of authority for detention in treatment centres

           Division IA - Discharge of patients

   28.     28. Discharge of patients by treatment centre
   29.     29. Discharge of patients by Tribunal

           Division II - Persons convicted of offences

   30.     30. 
   31.     31. 
   31A.    31A. 
   32.     32. 
   33.     33. 
   34.     34. 
   35.     35. 
   36.     36. 

           Division III - Transfer of persons in custody

   37.     37. 
   38.     38. 
   39.     39. 
   40.     40. 

           Division IV - Supplementary provisions as to persons subject to
           criminal and other proceedings

   41.     41. 
   42.     42. 
   43.     43. 

           Division V - General provisions as to patients liable to detention

   44.     44. Transfer of patients from one treatment centre to another
   45.     45. Leave of absence
   46.     46. Patients absent without leave
   47.     47. Effect of absence without leave on period of detention
   48.     48. Patients taken into other custody while liable to detention
   49.     49. Visiting and examination of patients in relation to
           applications to the Tribunal, &c.

   PART V - Applications to the Tribunal

   50.     50. Limitation on applications
   51.     51. 
   52.     52. Tribunal procedures
   53.     53. Appeals
   54.     54. Supplementary provisions as to appeals
   55.     55. Reference of matters to a commissioner appointed by court
   56.     56. Questions of law

   PART VI - Miscellaneous and Supplemental

   57.     57. Warrants to remove certain patients
   58.     58. Patients found in public places
   59.     59. Warrant to search for patients liable to be retaken
   60.     60. Period of detention in place of safety
   61.     61. Supplementary provisions as to detention, &c.
   62.     62. Assisting patients to absent themselves without leave, &c.
   63.     63. Ill-treatment of patients
   64.     64. Obstruction
   65.     65. Offences in relation to documents
   66.     66. Protection for acts done in pursuance of Act
   67.     67. Regulations
   68.     68. Cessation of operation of existing laws
           SCHEDULE 1


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