The Disability Services Amendment Act 1999 was passed on 25 November 1999. This Amendmend strengthened the reporting requirements on service providers. The following matters were to be reported to the Ministerial Advisory Council for Disability Services: deaths, ‘significant physical or psychological harm’, including neglect that might cause that harm; and any assault (including sexual assault)….
The Acts Amendment (Authority for Intellectually Handicapped Persons) Act 1985 (069 of 1985) amended the Mental Health Act 1962. The term ‘intellectually defective’ was removed and replaced with ‘intellectually handicapped person’. Other amendments made it clear that an intellectual disability was not a mental illness and removed references to training centres and other facilities for…
The Lunacy Act Amendment Act 1920 (11 Geo. V No. 42) set up the mechanisms for Boards of Visitors with broad powers of inspection and action in the interests of protecting and releasing patients in mental health institutions. The purpose of the Act was to ensure people weren’t locked up forever in a hospital for…
The Mental Health Act Amendment Act 1965 (037 of 1965) included the term ‘intellectually defective’ to describe a person who was ‘suffering from arrested or incomplete development of mind’ (s.3b). This was the first time intellectual disability had been distinguished from mental illness in the statute law of Western Australia.
The Public Education Amendment Act 1905 (5 Edw. VII No. 6) defined an ‘habitual truant’ as a child who was ‘constantly and habitually absent from school’ (s.3). The parents of those children accused of truancy could be brought before the court to ‘show cause why such child should not be sent to an industrial school’….
The Industrial Schools Act 1874 Amendment Act 1877 amended the Industrial Schools Act 1874. It stopped children who were voluntarily placed in an industrial school from coming under the guardianship of the manager of that institution until they had been there for at least one year (s.2). The manager’s power to apprentice children without their…
The Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act 1882 (1882/020) added the Rottnest Island Reformatory to the schedule of institutions governed by the Industrial Schools Act 1874. Both Acts were repealed by the State Children Act 1907. The Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act 1882 amended the Industrial Schools Act 1874 by adding the Rottnest Island Reformatory to…
The Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1941 removed the penalty of whipping from the 1927 Act by repealing s.124 clauses and substituting another which mandated that ‘the fact of such committal or conviction shall not be disclosed to any person, except with the consent of the Minister, or be admitted as evidence in any court…
The Criminal Code Amendment Act 1965 (Act no. 091 of 1965) was passed on 8 December 1965. The amending act substituted the reference to an industrial or reformatory school to more general descriptions of custody (s.18) and to include references to a child being placed in the care of the Child Welfare Department as per…
The Criminal Code Amendment Act (No. 2) 1956 (Act no. 043 of 1956 (5 Eliz. II No. 43)) was assented to on 11 October 1956 and commenced on 18 December 1956. It was ‘An Act to amend the Criminal Code’. When amending the Criminal Code in 1956 to change penalities for driving offences, the reference…
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