Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992

135 Regulations

  • (1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

    • (a) prescribing forms, registers, records, particulars, and notices for the purposes of this Act and the method of keeping such registers and records:

    • (b) prescribing the powers and duties of district inspectors and official visitors, and regulating the exercise of such powers and the performance of such duties:

    • (c) regulating the employment of patients and prescribing the terms and conditions of any such employment, the remuneration to be paid to or in respect of patients in consideration of any work performed by them, the method of such payment, and the persons to whom such remuneration is to be paid:

    • (d) regulating the carrying on of agricultural, industrial, or commercial pursuits or workshops in or in connection with hospitals:

    • (e) regulating the conduct of psychiatric security institutions:

    • (f) regulating the photographing of special patients contained in psychiatric security institutions:

    • (g) prescribing fees for any of the purposes of this Act:

    • (h) prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of or non-compliance with any regulation made under this Act or any requirement or direction made or given pursuant to any such regulation:

    • (i) prescribing fines not exceeding in respect of any such offence $500 and, in the case of a continuing offence, $50 for every day on which the offence has continued:

    • (j) providing for such matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to this Act and for its due administration.

    (2) Any regulations made under this section may apply generally, or may apply or be applied from time to time by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, in respect of any particular hospital or other place or any particular class of patient; and any such notice may be revoked or varied at any time in like manner.

    (3) The operation of any regulations made under this section may, if so provided in the regulations, be wholly suspended until they are applied by the Minister by notice pursuant to subsection (2).

    Compare: 1969 No 16 ss 126, 127