Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927
Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005
Western Australia
Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005
Contents
1.Citation1
2.Commencement1
3.Services that are “professional attention”1
Notes
Compilation table3
Western Australia
Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927
Hospitals and Health Services (
This determination comes into operation on the day on which it is published in the Gazette.
3.Services that are “professional attention”
(1)A psychiatric treatment programme that —
(a)is for a patient who has a mental illness;
(b)is provided by a multi‑disciplinary team under the direction and supervision of a psychiatrist; and
(c)is a half or full day programme that consists of more than one type of mainstream therapeutic activity,
is determined to be professional attention for the purposes of the definition of “day hospital facility” in section 2(1) of the Act.
(2)In this clause —
mental illness has the meaning given to that term in the Mental Health Act 1996 section 4;
multi-disciplinary team means a team of health professionals that includes at least one psychiatrist, one clinical psychologist, one registered mental health nurse, one occupational therapist and one social worker;
psychiatrist has the meaning given in the Mental Health Act 1996 section 3.
[Clause 3 amended in Gazette 1 Apr 2011 p. 1185; amended by Act No. 52 of 2012 s. 6.]
1This is a compilation of the Hospitals and Health Services (
Citation |
Gazettal |
Commencement |
Hospitals and Health Services ( |
25 Nov 2005 p. 5689 |
25 Nov 2005 (see cl. 2) |
Hospital and Health Services ( |
1 Apr 2011 p. 1184-5 |
cl. 1 and 2: 1 Apr 2011 (see cl. 2(a)); |
Mental Health Amendment (Psychiatrists) Act 2012 s. 6 assented to 29 Nov 2012 2 |
29 Nov 2012 (see s. 2) |
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1aOn the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.
Provisions that have not come into operation
Short title |
Number and year |
Assent |
Commencement |
Health Services Act 2016 s. 308(b) 3 |
11 of 2016 |
26 May 2016 |
To be proclaimed (see s. 2(b)) |
2The Mental Health Amendment (Psychiatrists) Act 2012 s. 8 reads as follows:
8.Power to amend or repeal unaffected
The amendment of an instrument by section 6 or 7 does not prevent that instrument from being amended or repealed by subsequent instrument.
3On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Health Services Act 2016 s. 308(b) had not come into operation. It reads as follows:
These determinations are revoked:
(b)Hospitals and Health Services (Day Hospital Facility) Determination (No. 2) 2005;
Defined terms
[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]
Defined termProvision(s)
mental illness3(2)
multi-disciplinary team3(2)
psychiatrist3(2)