BILL NO. 20

(as introduced)

1st Session, 64th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
70 Elizabeth II, 2021

 

Private Member's Bill

 

Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act
(amended)

 

Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
Cumberland North

First Reading: October 15, 2021

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill directs the Governor in Council to designate the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre as a psychiatric facility.

An Act to Amend Chapter 42
of the Acts of 2005,
the Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Chapter 42 of the Acts of 2005, the Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 83 the following Section:

83A Notwithstanding subsection 83(1), the Governor in Council shall make a regulation designating the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre as a psychiatric facility.

 

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