Mental Health Act 1990 Mental Health Amendment Regulation 1996 (1996-546) [GG No 124 of 1.11.1996] (NSW)

1996 No 546

New South Wales

Mental Health Amendment Regulation

1996

under the

Mental Health Act 1990

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Mental Health Act 1990.

J . W. SHAW, M.L.C.,

Acting Minister for Health.

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to clarify the status, as forensic patients, of certain persons in detention otherwise than in a mental hospital. The classification of these persons as forensic patients will enable periodic review of the nature of, and the necessity for, their detention.

This Regulation is made under the Mental Health Act 1990, including section 302 and clause 2 of Schedule 7.

Published in Gazette No 124 of 1 November 1996, page 7335 Page 1

1996 No 546

Clause 1 Mental Health Amendment Regulation 1996

Mental Health Amendment Regulation 1996

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Mental Health Amendment Regulation
1996.

1. Amendment of Mental Health Regulation l995

   The Mental Health Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in

   Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 17A

Insert after clause 17:

17A Forensic patients

A person who, immediately before the repeal of Part 7 of the Mental Health Act 1958 was detained under that Part otherwise than in a hospital and who is detained as at the commencement of this clause, is taken to be a forensic patient.