Mental Health Act Amendment Act 1965, 8 November 1965, courtesy of State Law Publisher of Western Australia.
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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.
Sources used to compile this entry: Rayner, Moira and Cockram, Judith, 'The Response of the Law to Intellectual Disability in Western Australia 1829-1993', in Errol Cocks (ed.), Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 137-165. p.138..
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 22 April 2013, Last modified: 11 October 2017
Last updated: 17 October 2023
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