Mental Health Amendment (Delegation) Regulation 2007 (NSW)

2007 No 138

New South Wales

Mental Health Amendment (Delegation)

Regulation 2007

under the

Mental Health Act 1990

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

JOHN HATZISTERGOS, M.L.C.,

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Mental Health Regulation 2000 to prescribe certain officers of Justice Health as authorised persons for the purposes of section 287B of the Mental Health Act 1990 to enable the Chief Health Officer of the Department of Health to delegate his or her powers under that Act to such persons.
This Regulation is made under the Mental Health Act 1990, including sections 287B and 302

(the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 42 of 16 March 2007, page 1785	Page 1
2007 No 138
Clause 1	Mental Health Amendment (Delegation) Regulation 2007

Mental Health Amendment (Delegation) Regulation 2007

under the

Mental Health Act 1990

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Mental Health Amendment (Delegation)
Regulation 2007.

2 Amendment of Mental Health Regulation 2000

The Mental Health Regulation 2000 is amended by inserting the following clause after clause 40:

40A Delegation of functions of the Chief Health Officer

For the purposes of section 287B of the Act, the following officers of Justice Health are prescribed as authorised persons:

(a)	the Chief Executive Officer,
(b)	the Director, Statewide Forensic Mental Health,
(c)	the Director, Adolescent Health.

BY AUTHORITY