Mental Health Act Amendment Act 1972 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

MENTAL HEALTH.

No. 49 of 1972.

AN ACT to amend section thirty of the Mental

Health Act, 1962-1968.

[Assented to 2nd October, 1972.1

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Mental and cite don.

Health Act Amendment Act, 1972.

Reprinted as

(2) In this Act the Mental Health Act, 1962-1968 approved for reprint, 8th

is referred to as the principal Act.

July, 1966

and amended

by Act No. 16

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act of 1968.

may be cited as the Mental Health Act, 1962-1972.

No. 49.1 Mental Health. [1972.

Section 30

amended. 2. Subsection (1) of section 30 of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word "law" in line three of paragraph (c), the words "or of attempting to take his own life".