Mental Treatment Act Amendment Act 1940 (WA)

No. 40.1 Mental Treatment. [1940.

MENTAL TREATMENT.

4° and 5° GEO. VI., No. XL.

No. 40 of 1940.

AN ACT to make provision in the Mental Treatment Act, 1927, for the reception of insane patients in certain cases into hospitals and reception houses for purposes of treatment.

[Assented to 30th December, 1940.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title. 1.

Tins Act may be cited as the Mental Treatment Act Amendment Act, 1940, and shall be read as one with the Mental Treatment Act, 1927 (No. 13 of 1927), herein- after referred to as the principal Act.

New section 2.

A section is inserted in the principal Act after section four, as follows:—

Insane

Patients may	4A. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
be received

into hospitals	contained in either section three or section four of
and reception
houses in cer-	this Act, every hospital established and every recep-
tain eases.	tion house constituted under this Act shall be a place within the meaning and for the purposes of sub- section (1) of section ninety-eight of the Lunacy Act, 1920, to which a patient to whom the said sub- section applies may be sent or taken for the benefit of his health under such subsection, and, where any such patient is so sent or taken to any hospital or reception house aforesaid, lie may be received or admitted into the same and may be treated therein for the benefit of his health accordingly.
Citation of

The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Mental Treatment Act, 1927-1940.

principal Act 3.

as amended.