Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HEALTH LEGISLATION ADMINISTRATION ACT 1984 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Health Legislation Administration Act 1984 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Health Legislation Administration Act 1984	27 of 1984	31 May 1984	1 Jul 1984 (see s. 2 and Gazette 15 Jun 1984 p. 1629)
Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985 s. 3	98 of 1985	4 Dec 1985	1 Jul 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1986 p. 2255)
Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994 s. 3(2)	32 of 1994	29 Jun 1994	1 Oct 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Sep 1994 p. 4948)
Hospitals Amendment Act 1994 s. 18	103 of 1994	11 Jan 1995	3 Feb 1995 (see s. 2 and Gazette 3 Feb 1995 p. 333)
Mental Health (Consequential Provisions) Act 1996 Pt. 9 5	69 of 1996	13 Nov 1996	13 Nov 1997 (see s. 2)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1997 s. 69	57 of 1997	15 Dec 1997	15 Dec 1997 (see s. 2(1))
Reprint of the Health Legislation Administration Act 1984 as at 11 Jan 2002 (includes amendments listed above)
Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 9 Div. 3 6, 7	28 of 2006	26 Jun 2006	1 Jul 2006 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Jun 2006 p. 2347)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 17	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2 and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Medical Practitioners Act 2008 s. 162	22 of 2008	27 May 2008	1 Dec 2008 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Nov 2008 p. 4989)

² Under the Interpretation Act 1984 s. 16, a reference to the Industrial Arbitration Act 1979 may be read as a reference to the Industrial Relations Act 1979. The reference was changed under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(3)(g).

³ Repealed by the Acts Amendment and Repeal (Industrial Relations) Act (No. 2) 1984.

⁴ Under the Public Sector Management Act 1994 s. 112(2), a reference in a written law to the Public Service Board is, unless the contrary intention appears or it is otherwise provided under the Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994, to be construed as if it had been amended to be a reference to the Minister for Public Sector Management (as defined in the Interpretation Act 1984). This reference was amended under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(5)(a).

⁵ The Mental Health (Consequential Provisions) Act 1996 s. 38(2) reads as follows:

“

(2) The person who immediately before the commencement of this provision held office as the Director, Psychiatric Services under the section amended by subsection (1) is to be taken after the commencement to hold the office of Chief Psychiatrist under that section.

”.

⁶ The Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 9 Div. 13 reads as follows:

“

Division 13 — Transitional provisions

289. Commissioner of Health

(1) A thing done or omitted to be done by, to or in relation to, the Commissioner of Health before commencement under, or for the purposes of, an enactment has the same effect after commencement, to the extent that it has any force or significance after commencement, as if it had been done or omitted by, to or in relation to, the CEO.

(2) In this section —

CEO has the meaning given by section 3 of the Health Legislation Administration Act 1984 as in force after commencement;

commencement means the time at which this Division comes into operation;

Commissioner of Health means the Commissioner of Health referred to in section 6(1)(a) of the Health Legislation Administration Act 1984 as in force before commencement.

”.

⁷ The requirement to appoint a Commissioner of Health was removed from the Act and references to the Commissioner of Health were replaced by references to the CEO, see the Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 9. Section 454 of that Act is a general transitional provision that applies to references to the Commissioner in written laws.