MENTAL HEALTH (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1996

Table of Provisions

• Preamble

PART 1 -- Preliminary  

• 1 Short title
 
• 2 Commencement

PART 4 -- The Criminal Code  

• 5 The Code
 
• 20 Transitional provision

PART 9 -- Health Legislation Administration Act 1984  

• 38 Section 6 amended and transitional provision

PART 12 -- Mental Health Act 1962

Division 2 -- Transitional  

• 53 Interpretation
 
• 54 Interpretation Act 1984 not affected
 
• 55 Investigations under section
 
• 56 Authorized hospitals
 
• 57 Licences for private psychiatric hostels
 
• 58 Register of psychiatrists
 
• 59 Referrals under section 28 (1)
  60. Persons under observation, ss. 28(3) and 34(1)   61. Orders under section  
• 62 Orders under section 30 (1)
  63. Persons in custody under section 30 (2)   64. Warrants under section 31 (2)   65. Persons on remand for examination  
• 66 Patients detained, other than security patients
 
• 67 Leave of absence
 
• 68 Absence without leave
 
• 69 Patients discharged to after-care
 
• 70 Security patients
 
• 71 Application to Court
 
• 72 Transitional regulations

PART 19 -- Sentence Administration Act 1995  

• 87 Transitional provisions
Defined terms


AN ACT —
•         to amend various Acts;
•         to repeal the Mental Health Act 1962 and the Mental Health Act 1981; and
•         to enact transitional provisions,
as a consequence of the enactment of the Mental Health Act 1996 and the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996.


• Compilation table