Mental Health Regulations 2004 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

MENTAL HEALTH REGULATIONS 2004

[Consolidated as at 26 February 2013 on the authority of the Administrator and in accordance with the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980] ________

TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section

PART 1 — PRELIMINARY 1. Name of Regulations 2. Commencement 3. Definitions

PART 2 — INTERSTATE APPLICATION OF MENTAL HEALTH LAWS 4. Corresponding laws 5. Interstate custodial patients 6. Corresponding people for interstate custodial patients 7. Recognition of interstate apprehension orders 8. People authorised to apprehend under interstate apprehension orders 9. Place to which people can be taken in Norfolk Island under interstate apprehension orders 10. Place to which people can be taken in Queensland under section 42E 11. Application of Act to persons transferred from Norfolk Island

NORFOLK ISLAND

Mental Health Regulations 2004 ____________________________________________________________

Part 1 — Preliminary Name of Regulations 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Health Regulations 2004. Commencement 2. These Regulations shall commence operation on the day on which notification of their being made is published in the Gazette.

Definitions 3. In these Regulations — "interstate agreement" means agreements about the interstate application of mental health laws made under section 42A of the Act; "interstate apprehension order" means an interstate apprehension order under an interstate agreement; "NSW Act" means the Mental Health Act 1990 (NSW); "Queensland Act" means the Mental Health Act 2000 (Qld); "the Act" means the Mental Health Act 1996; "Victorian Act" means the Mental Health Act 1986 (Vic).

Part 2 — Interstate application of mental health laws Corresponding laws 4. The following are corresponding laws for section 42D of the Act — (a) the Mental Health Act 1990 (NSW); (b) the Mental Health Act 1986 (Vic); (c) the Mental Health Act 2000 (Qld).