{"id":"alcohol-and-drug-authority-act-1974","name":"Alcohol and Drug Authority Act 1974","slug":"alcohol-and-drug-authority-act-1974","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":29956,"registerId":"wa-alcohol-and-drug-authority-act-1974-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Alcohol and Drug Authority Act 1974","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nAlcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974\n\nWestern Australia\n\nAlcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974\n\nContents\n\nPart 1 — Preliminary\n\n1. Short title 2\n\n2. Commencement 2\n\n4. Terms used 2\n\nPart 2 — Administration\n\nDivision 1 — Role of Minister\n\n5. Establishment of Ministerial Body 4\n\n6. Purpose and nature of Ministerial Body 4\n\n7. Execution of documents by Ministerial Body 5\n\n8. Minister’s powers to acquire and dispose of property 6\n\n9. Delegation by Minister 7\n\nDivision 2 — Role of CEO\n\n10. Administration of this Act 7\n\n11. Functions of CEO 8\n\n12. Powers of CEO 9\n\n13. Delegation by CEO 9\n\nDivision 3 — Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board\n\n14. Establishment of Board 10\n\nDivision 4 — Staff\n\n15. Appointment of staff 11\n\n16. Secondments 12\n\n17. Contracts for services 12\n\n18. Relationship to *Public Sector Management Act 1994* 13\n\nPart 3 — Facilities for alcohol and other drug use problems\n\n19. Facilities 14\n\n20. Procedure on deaths or serious injuries in facilities 14\n\nPart 5 — Miscellaneous provisions\n\n34. Recovery of fees 15\n\n36. Regulations 15\n\n37. Review of this Act 16\n\nPart 6 — Transitional matters for *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015*\n\nDivision 1 — Interpretation\n\n38. Terms used 17\n\nDivision 2 — Authority and its members\n\n39. Authority abolished 19\n\n40. Immunity continues 19\n\nDivision 3 — Authority’s assets, rights and liabilities\n\n41. Transfer to Ministerial Body or State 19\n\n42. Transfer orders 20\n\n43. Correction of errors in transfer orders 22\n\n44. Reserves managed by Authority 22\n\n45. Registration of documents 23\n\n46. Authority to complete necessary transactions 24\n\n47. Exemption from State tax 25\n\n48. Operating accounts of Authority 25\n\n49. Investments 26\n\nDivision 4 — Authority’s staff\n\n50. Employees of Authority 27\n\n51. Preservation of rights 27\n\nDivision 5 — Continuation of certain things\n\n52. Completion of things done 28\n\n53. Continuing effect of things done 28\n\n54. Agreements, instruments, proceedings and remedies generally 29\n\nDivision 6 — Other matters\n\n55. Authority’s records to be delivered to CEO 29\n\n56. Transitional regulations 30\n\n57. Effect on other instruments, rights and obligations 31\n\n58. *Interpretation Act 1984* not affected 32\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 33\n\nUncommenced provisions table 34\n\nOther notes 34\n\nDefined terms\n\n  \n\nAlcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974\n\nAn Act for the purposes of —\n\n- providing treatment, management, care and rehabilitation of persons experiencing alcohol or other drug use problems or co‑occurring health issues, including persons who have or may have a mental illness; and\n- promoting and subsidising research into and education on the causation, prevention, reduction and treatment of alcohol and other drug use problems and co‑occurring health issues such as mental illness; and\n- establishing and maintaining a coordinated focus on alcohol and other drug use and mental illness,\n\n\nand for related purposes.\n\n[Long title inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 4.]\n\n## Part 1 — Preliminary\n\n[Heading amended: No. 3 of 2015 s. 5.]\n\n##### 1. Short title\n\nThis Act may be cited as the *Alcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974*.\n\n[Section 1 amended: No. 3 of 2015 s. 6.]\n\n##### 2. Commencement\n\nThe provisions of this Act shall come into operation on such day or days as is or are, respectively, fixed by proclamation.\n\n[**3.** Deleted: No. 10 of 1998 s. 76.]\n\n##### 4. Terms used\n\nIn this Act, unless the context requires otherwise —\n\nCEO means the chief executive officer of the Department;\n\nDepartment means the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister in administering this Act;\n\nfacility means premises maintained by the CEO for the assessment, treatment, management, care or rehabilitation of persons experiencing alcohol or other drug use problems or co‑occurring health issues, including persons who have or may have a mental illness;\n\nmedical practitioner means a person registered under the *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)* in the medical profession;\n\nMinisterial Body means the Alcohol and Other Drugs Ministerial Body established by section 5;\n\nstaff member means —\n\n(a) a public service officer referred to in section 15(1)(a); or\n\n(b) a person appointed under section 15(1)(b) or (c); or\n\n(c) a person who is seconded to the Department under section 16(2).\n\n[Section 4 amended: No. 32 of 1994 s. 19; No. 22 of 2008 Sch. 3 cl. 2; No. 35 of 2010 s. 25; No. 3 of 2015 s. 7.]\n\n## Part 2 — Administration\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n### Division 1 — Role of Minister\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 5. Establishment of Ministerial Body\n\n(1) The Alcohol and Other Drugs Ministerial Body is established.\n\n(2) The Ministerial Body is a body corporate with perpetual succession.\n\n(3) Proceedings may be taken by or against the Ministerial Body in its corporate name.\n\n(4) The Ministerial Body must be governed by the Minister.\n\n(5) The Ministerial Body has the status, immunities and privileges of the Crown.\n\n[Section 5 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 6. Purpose and nature of Ministerial Body\n\n(1) The Ministerial Body is established to provide a body corporate through which the Minister can perform any of the Minister’s functions under this Act that can more conveniently be performed by a body corporate than an individual.\n\n(2) Any acts or things done through the Ministerial Body as described in subsection (1) must be regarded as —\n\n(a) services under the control of the Department for the purposes of the *Financial Management Act 2006* section 52; and\n\n(b) operations of the Department for the purposes of Part 5 of that Act.\n\n(3) Despite the employment under the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* of ministerial officers for the purpose of assisting the Minister to perform functions that the Minister performs through the Ministerial Body, the Ministerial Body and those officers are not an organisation for the purposes of that Act.\n\n[Section 6 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 7. Execution of documents by Ministerial Body\n\n(1) The Ministerial Body must have a common seal.\n\n(2) A document is duly executed by the Ministerial Body if —\n\n(a) the common seal of the Ministerial Body is affixed to it in accordance with subsections (3) and (4); or\n\n(b) it is signed on behalf of the Ministerial Body by the Minister; or\n\n(c) it is signed on behalf of the Ministerial Body, as authorised under subsection (5), by the CEO or another person.\n\n(3) The common seal of the Ministerial Body must not be affixed to a document except as authorised by the Ministerial Body.\n\n(4) The common seal of the Ministerial Body must be affixed to a document in the presence of the Minister and the Minister must sign the document to attest that the common seal was so affixed.\n\n(5) The Ministerial Body may, by writing under its seal, authorise the CEO or another person to execute deeds or other documents on behalf of the Ministerial Body, either generally or subject to any conditions or restrictions specified in the authorisation.\n\n(6) A document purporting to be executed in accordance with this section must be presumed to be duly executed until the contrary is shown.\n\n(7) A document executed by the CEO or another person under this section without the common seal of the Ministerial Body must not be regarded as a deed unless it is executed as a deed as authorised under subsection (5).\n\n(8) When a document is produced bearing a seal purporting to be the common seal of the Ministerial Body, it must be presumed that the seal is the common seal of the Ministerial Body until the contrary is shown.\n\n(9) For the purposes of this Act, a facsimile of any of the following may be used —\n\n(a) the Ministerial Body’s seal;\n\n(b) the signature of the Minister;\n\n(c) the signature of a person authorised under subsection (5) to execute deeds or other documents.\n\n(10) A deed or other document purporting to be endorsed with such a facsimile must be regarded as bearing the facsimile under subsection (9) until the contrary is shown.\n\n[Section 7 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 8. Minister’s powers to acquire and dispose of property\n\n(1) In this section —\n\nacquire includes taking on lease or licence or in any other manner in which property may be acquired;\n\ndispose of includes disposing of by way of lease or licence or in any other manner in which property may be disposed of.\n\n(2) For the purposes of this Act, the Minister may —\n\n(a) acquire, hold, manage, improve, develop, dispose of and otherwise deal in real and personal property; and\n\n(b) develop and turn to account any technology, software or other intellectual property and apply for, hold, exploit and dispose of any patent, patent rights, copyright or similar rights; and\n\n(c) provide and turn to account education and training services; and\n\n(d) provide and turn to account advertising opportunities or opportunities to participate in arrangements in the nature of advertising or having a purpose similar to advertising.\n\n[Section 8 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 9. Delegation by Minister\n\n(1) The Minister may delegate to the CEO any power or duty of the Minister under another provision of this Act.\n\n(2) Without limiting the powers or duties that may be delegated under this section, they include powers or duties that are to be exercised or performed in the course of governing the affairs of the Ministerial Body under section 5(4).\n\n(3) A delegation under this section must be in writing signed by the Minister.\n\n(4) The CEO cannot delegate a power or duty that is delegated to the CEO under this section.\n\n(5) The exercise or performance by the CEO of a power or duty that has been delegated to the CEO under this section is to be taken to be in accordance with the terms of the delegation unless the contrary is shown.\n\n(6) This section does not limit the ability of the Minister to perform a function through an officer or agent.\n\n[Section 9 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n### Division 2 — Role of CEO\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 10. Administration of this Act\n\nSubject to the general control of the Minister and any directions or instructions given under the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* section 32 by the Minister to the CEO, the CEO must carry out the administration of this Act.\n\n[Section 10 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 11. Functions of CEO\n\n(1) The functions of the CEO include the following —\n\n(a) to provide assessment, treatment, management, care and rehabilitation of persons experiencing alcohol or other drug use problems or co‑occurring health issues, including persons who have or may have a mental illness, and to subsidise and otherwise support, as the CEO thinks fit, any other persons or organisations providing any one or more of those things;\n\n(b) subject to the Minister’s consent, to establish and maintain premises for the assessment, treatment, management, care and rehabilitation of persons experiencing alcohol or other drug use problems or co‑occurring health issues, including persons who have or may have a mental illness, and to subsidise and otherwise support, as the CEO thinks fit, other persons and organisations establishing or maintaining premises for any one or more of those purposes;\n\n(c) subject to the Minister’s consent, to establish and maintain accommodation for persons for whom assessment, treatment, management, care or rehabilitation services are provided under this Act and to subsidise and otherwise support, as the CEO thinks fit, other persons and organisations establishing or maintaining such accommodation;\n\n(d) to provide such other facilities and services as the CEO considers necessary or desirable for the purposes of this Act;\n\n(e) to determine the persons or classes of person for whom the CEO may provide facilities or services under this Act or in respect of whom the CEO may subsidise or otherwise support other persons and organisations providing facilities and services consistent with the purposes of this Act;\n\n(f) to coordinate, promote, and subsidise, in Western Australia research into and education on the causation, prevention, reduction and treatment of alcohol and other drug use problems and co‑occurring health issues such as mental illness;\n\n(g) to inquire into offences in which the use of alcohol or other drugs or both is an element, and the penalties for those offences, and to make recommendations to the Minister and Attorney General in relation to the need for, or desirability of, legislative action in the community interest in relation to those offences and penalties;\n\n(h) subject to the Minister’s consent, to cooperate and enter into agreement with other persons and organisations, in this State or otherwise, to such extent as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act.\n\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), (c) and (h), the Minister’s consent may be given subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister thinks fit.\n\n[Section 11 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 12. Powers of CEO\n\nThe CEO may do anything necessary or convenient for the performance of the CEO’s functions under this Act.\n\n[Section 12 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 13. Delegation by CEO\n\n(1) The CEO may delegate any power or duty of the CEO under another provision of this Act to —\n\n(a) a staff member; or\n\n(b) with the approval of the Minister, any other person.\n\n(2) The Minister must not approve a delegation under subsection (1)(b) unless satisfied that the delegation is necessary or convenient having regard to —\n\n(a) the functions of the Department; or\n\n(b) the specialised knowledge, expertise or resources of the person to whom the power or duty is delegated.\n\n(3) A delegation under this section must be in writing signed by the CEO.\n\n(4) A person to whom a power or duty is delegated under this section cannot delegate that power or duty.\n\n(5) A person exercising or performing a power or duty that has been delegated to the person under this section is to be taken to do so in accordance with the terms of the delegation unless the contrary is shown.\n\n(6) This section does not limit the ability of the CEO to perform a function through an officer or agent.\n\n[Section 13 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n### Division 3 — Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 14. Establishment of Board\n\n(1) The Minister must establish the Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board to provide advice to the CEO about matters relevant to the performance of functions under section 11.\n\n(2) Subsection (1) does not authorise the Minister to establish a body corporate.\n\n(3) The Board must consist of the people that the Minister thinks fit to appoint.\n\n(4) The Board must be established by an instrument signed by the Minister that —\n\n(a) identifies the members of the Board and the length and conditions of each of their appointments; and\n\n(b) sets out the duties and responsibilities of the Board; and\n\n(c) sets out any other matters in relation to the operation and procedures of the Board that the Minister considers appropriate.\n\n(5) The Minister may, by instrument signed by the Minister, amend or cancel an instrument made under subsection (4).\n\n(6) Except to the extent that its procedures are set out in an instrument made under subsection (4), the Board may determine its own procedures.\n\n(7) The members of the Board are entitled to any remuneration and allowances that the Minister may determine on the recommendation of the Public Sector Commissioner.\n\n[Section 14 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n### Division 4 — Staff\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 15. Appointment of staff\n\n(1) For the purposes of this Act, the following persons may be employed or engaged in the Department —\n\n(a) public service officers appointed or made available under the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* Part 3;\n\n(b) medical practitioners appointed by the CEO;\n\n(c) wages staff appointed by the CEO.\n\n(2) Subject to any relevant award or industrial agreement, the terms and conditions of an appointment under subsection (1)(b) or (c) are to be such terms and conditions as the CEO, with the approval of the Public Sector Commissioner, determines.\n\n(3) A person appointed under subsection (1)(b) or (c) is not a person appointed under the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* Part 3.\n\n[Section 15 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 16. Secondments\n\n(1) In this section —\n\nemployer means —\n\n(a) an employing authority as defined in the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* section 3(1); or\n\n(b) an employer outside the Public Sector as defined in the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* section 3(1).\n\n(2) The CEO may arrange with another employer for an employee of that other employer to perform duties in the service of the Department for the purposes of this Act.\n\n(3) The CEO may, with the consent of a person appointed under section 15(1)(b) or (c), arrange with another employer for the person to perform duties in the service of that other employer for the purposes of this Act.\n\n[Section 16 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 17. Contracts for services\n\n(1) The CEO may engage a person to perform services for the purposes of this Act under a contract for services on the terms and conditions (including as to remuneration) that the CEO thinks fit.\n\n(2) A person engaged under subsection (1) is not a person appointed under the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* Part 3.\n\n[Section 17 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 18. Relationship to *Public Sector Management Act 1994*\n\nThe CEO’s powers under this Division are in addition to, and do not affect, the CEO’s powers under the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* as an employing authority.\n\n[Section 18 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n## Part 3 — Facilities for alcohol and other drug use problems\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 19. Facilities\n\nThe CEO may, with the Minister’s approval, with respect to any facility —\n\n(a) prohibit or regulate the admission of persons to, or the right of persons to remain in, the facility; or\n\n(b) fix fees for any service provided at the facility and determine the persons or classes of person who are liable for payment of those fees in full or in part or who may be exempted from such payment.\n\n[Section 19 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n##### 20. Procedure on deaths or serious injuries in facilities\n\n(1) The CEO must hold an inquiry into the death of, or any serious injury caused to, any person while in a facility for assessment, treatment, management, care or rehabilitation.\n\n(2) The person in charge of a facility must report to the CEO with respect to the circumstances surrounding the death of, or any serious injury caused to, any person while in a facility for assessment, treatment, management, care or rehabilitation.\n\n[Section 20 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n[**21-26.** Deleted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 8.]\n\n[Pt. IV: s. 27-30 and 32 deleted: No. 3 of 2016 s. 8;  \ns. 31 and 33 deleted: No. 98 of 1985 s. 3]\n\n## Part 5 — Miscellaneous provisions\n\n[Heading amended: No. 3 of 2015 s. 9.]\n\n##### 34. Recovery of fees\n\nA fee payable under this Act is recoverable, by a staff member authorised by the CEO, in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the State.\n\n[Section 34 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 10.]\n\n[**35.** Deleted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 10.]\n\n##### 36. Regulations\n\n(1) The Governor may make such regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, as are necessary or desirable for the proper administration of this Act or for achieving the purposes of this Act.\n\n(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) the Governor may make regulations —\n\n(a) regulating the general conduct of persons while in a facility for assessment, treatment, management, care or rehabilitation and of visitors to a facility;\n\n(b) for prohibiting and preventing trespass on a facility.\n\n(3) The regulations may prescribe penalties, not exceeding a fine of $500, in respect of a breach of any of the regulations.\n\n(4) The regulations may require that any information, account, document, or form required to be given or furnished under the regulations must be verified by statutory declaration.\n\n(5) A regulation —\n\n(a) may be limited in its application to time, place, or circumstance; and\n\n(b) may provide that any act or thing done must be done with the approval or to the satisfaction of a specified person or class of persons and may confer a discretionary authority.\n\n[Section 36 amended: No. 3 of 2015 s. 11.]\n\n##### 37. Review of this Act\n\n(1) The Minister must review the operation and effectiveness of this Act as soon as practicable after the expiry of 5 years from the commencement of the *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015* section 8.\n\n(2) The Minister must, as soon as practicable —\n\n(a) prepare a report about the outcome of the review; and\n\n(b) cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of Parliament.\n\n[Section 37 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 12.]\n\n## Part 6 — Transitional matters for *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015*\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n### Division 1 — Interpretation\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 38. Terms used\n\nIn this Part —\n\namended Act means this Act as amended by the *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015* section 8;\n\nassets —\n\n(a) means any legal or equitable estates or interests (whether present or future, whether vested or contingent and whether personal or assignable) in real or personal property of any description; and\n\n(b) includes money, securities, choses in action and documents;\n\nAuthority means the Western Australian Alcohol and Drug Authority established by the former Act section 5;\n\nformer Act means this Act as in force immediately before transition day;\n\nLAA means the *Land Administration Act 1997*;\n\nliabilities means any liabilities, duties or obligations, whether actual, contingent or prospective, liquidated or unliquidated or whether owed alone or jointly or jointly and severally with any other persons;\n\nMinister for Lands means the Minister as defined in the LAA section 3(1);\n\noperating account means an agency special purpose account established under the *Financial Management Act 2006* section 16;\n\nrelevant official means —\n\n(a) the Registrar of Titles; or\n\n(b) the Registrar of Deeds and Transfers; or\n\n(c) any other person authorised by a written law to record and give effect to the registration of documents relating to transactions affecting any estate or interest in land or any other property;\n\nrelevant successor means —\n\n(a) the Minister in relation to a function of the Authority that becomes a function of the Minister on transition day; or\n\n(b) the CEO in relation to a function of the Authority that becomes a function of the CEO on transition day; or\n\n(c) the Ministerial Body in relation to assets and liabilities assigned to the Ministerial Body by section 41; or\n\n(d) the State in relation to assets and liabilities of the Authority assigned to the State by section 41;\n\nrights means any rights, powers, privileges or immunities, whether actual, contingent or prospective;\n\nstatutory transition —\n\n(a) means the transition from the provisions of the former Act to the amended Act; and\n\n(b) includes the transition from the Authority to a relevant successor;\n\nthis Part includes regulations made under section 56(2);\n\ntransfer order means an order made under section 42;\n\ntransition day means the day on which the *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015* section 8 comes into operation.\n\n[Section 38 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n### Division 2 — Authority and its members\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 39. Authority abolished\n\nOn transition day, the Authority is abolished and the members of the Authority go out of office.\n\n[Section 39 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 40. Immunity continues\n\nDespite the abolition of the Authority by section 39, if the Authority had the benefit of any immunity in respect of an act, matter or thing done or omitted before transition day, that immunity continues on and after transition day in that respect for the benefit of a relevant successor so far as the act, matter or thing is within the relevant successor’s functions.\n\n[Section 40 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n### Division 3 — Authority’s assets, rights and liabilities\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 41. Transfer to Ministerial Body or State\n\n(1) On transition day —\n\n(a) the assets of the Authority specified in a transfer order are assigned to and become the assets of the Ministerial Body; and\n\n(b) the rest of the assets of the Authority are assigned to and become the assets of the State.\n\n(2) On transition day —\n\n(a) the liabilities of the Authority specified in a transfer order are assigned to and become the liabilities of the Ministerial Body; and\n\n(b) the rest of the liabilities of the Authority are assigned to and become the liabilities of the State.\n\n(3) On transition day, the Ministerial Body is substituted for the Authority as a party to any proceedings specified in a transfer order.\n\n(4) On and after transition day, any agreement or instrument specified in a transfer order has effect as if references to the Ministerial Body were substituted, in accordance with the order, for references to the Authority.\n\n(5) On and after transition day, any proceedings or remedy that might have been commenced by or against, or might have been available to or against, the Authority in relation to the assets and liabilities assigned by subsections (1) and (2) may be commenced by or against, or are available to or against —\n\n(a) the Ministerial Body in the case of assets and liabilities assigned by subsections (1)(a) and (2)(a); and\n\n(b) the State in the case of assets and liabilities assigned by subsections (1)(b) and (2)(b).\n\n(6) On and after transition day, an act or omission done or omitted in relation to the assets and liabilities assigned by subsections (1) and (2) before the assignment by, to or in respect of the Authority is, to the extent that the act or omission has any effect, to be taken to have been done or omitted by, to or in respect of —\n\n(a) the Ministerial Body in the case of the assets and liabilities assigned by subsections (1)(a) and (2)(a); and\n\n(b) the State in the case of assets and liabilities assigned by subsections (1)(b) and (2)(b).\n\n[Section 41 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 42. Transfer orders\n\n(1) To facilitate the statutory transition, the Minister may, by order published in the *Gazette* (a transfer order), specify all or any of the following —\n\n(a) assets and liabilities of the Authority that are to be assigned to the Ministerial Body by operation of section 41;\n\n(b) proceedings in which the Ministerial Body is to be substituted for the Authority as a party by operation of section 41;\n\n(c) agreements and instruments that, by operation of section 41, are to have effect as if references to the Ministerial Body were substituted, in accordance with the order, for references in the agreements and instruments to the Authority.\n\n(2) A transfer order may also deal with any matter that is incidental or supplementary to a matter to which subsection (1) relates and the transfer order has effect accordingly.\n\n(3) A transfer order may specify things by reference to one or more schedules that —\n\n(a) need not be published in the *Gazette*; but\n\n(b) must be available for public inspection.\n\n(4) Anything specified in a schedule for a transfer order is to be taken to be specified in the transfer order.\n\n(5) A thing may be specified in a transfer order by describing the class to which it belongs.\n\n(6) Before a transfer order is made specifying an interest in land that, under the LAA, can only be assigned with the approval of the Minister for Lands, the Minister must obtain that approval.\n\n(7) Before a transfer order is made specifying anything by reference to a schedule, the Minister must consult each relevant official about the form and content of the schedule.\n\n(8) To the extent to which a schedule for a transfer order relates to the functions of the Registrar of Titles, the schedule must be in a form that meets the requirements of the Registrar.\n\n(9) A thing done by, under or for the purposes of this Part is not invalid merely because subsection (7) or (8) was not complied with.\n\n(10) The fact that a previous transfer order has been made does not prevent a further transfer order from being made.\n\n(11) The Minister may, by order published in the *Gazette*, amend a transfer order or a schedule for a transfer order.\n\n(12) A transfer order, or an amendment to a transfer order or to a schedule for a transfer order, can only be made before transition day.\n\n[Section 42 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 43. Correction of errors in transfer orders\n\n(1) The Minister may, by order published in the *Gazette*, make any provision that is necessary to correct any error in a transfer order or a schedule for a transfer order.\n\n(2) An order made under subsection (1) may have effect on and after transition day.\n\n(3) To the extent that an order made under subsection (1) has effect before the day of its publication in the *Gazette*, section 41 does not operate as a result of the order so as —\n\n(a) to affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) the rights of that person existing before the day of its publication; or\n\n(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted before the day of its publication.\n\n[Section 43 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 44. Reserves managed by Authority\n\n(1) This section applies to any Crown land that, immediately before transition day, was a reserve under the LAA section 41 for which the Authority was the management body under the LAA section 46(1).\n\n(2) On transition day —\n\n(a) Crown land to which this section applies is to be taken to be a reserve under the LAA section 41 for the purposes of the *Alcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974*; and\n\n(b) the Ministerial Body is to be taken to be the management body of the reserve under the LAA section 46(1).\n\n(3) For the purposes of section 45 and the purposes of the LAA —\n\n(a) subsection (2)(a) must be treated as if it were an order made under the LAA section 51 changing the purpose of the reserve; and\n\n(b) subsection (2)(b) must be treated as if it were —\n\n(i) an order made under the LAA section 50(1)(a) revoking the management order placing the care, control and management of the reserve with the Authority and specifying that any interests that existed in, or any caveats that existed in respect of, the reserve immediately before transition day continue to exist in respect of the reserve on and after transition day; and\n\n(ii) a management order made under the LAA section 46(1) placing the care, control and management of the reserve with the Ministerial Body subject to any conditions (with the changes necessary to take account of differences as to purpose and management body) to which the management order referred to in subparagraph (i) was subject immediately before transition day.\n\n[Section 44 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 45. Registration of documents\n\n(1) The relevant officials —\n\n(a) must take notice of this Part and any transfer order, including any schedule for the transfer order; and\n\n(b) must record and register in the appropriate manner the documents necessary to show the effect of this Part and any transfer order.\n\n(2) The Minister must give a copy of each transfer order and any schedule for it, and any amendment to a transfer order or to a schedule for a transfer order, to each relevant official.\n\n[Section 45 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 46. Authority to complete necessary transactions\n\n(1) If an asset or liability of the Authority cannot be properly assigned to the Ministerial Body or the State by the operation of this Division (whether because the matter is governed otherwise than by the law of the State or for any other reason) —\n\n(a) the Authority is to be taken to continue to hold that asset or be liable for that liability until it is effectively assigned to the Ministerial Body or the State in accordance with this Division; and\n\n(b) the Authority must take all practicable steps for the purpose of ensuring that the asset or liability is effectively assigned to the Ministerial Body or the State in accordance with this Division.\n\n(2) The fact that subsection (1)(a) applies to an asset or liability that is to be assigned to the Ministerial Body or the State under this Division does not affect the duty of the accountable authority of the Department under the *Financial Management Act 2006*.\n\n(3) Despite section 39, the Authority continues in existence for the purpose of performing the functions described in subsection (1).\n\n(4) The Authority must perform those functions through a person appointed by the Minister.\n\n(5) The person holds office at the pleasure of the Minister and on such terms and conditions as the Minister determines.\n\n(6) The Authority as continued by this section has the powers that are necessary or convenient for the purposes of this section.\n\n[Section 46 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 47. Exemption from State tax\n\n(1) In this section —\n\nState tax includes —\n\n(a) duty chargeable under the *Duties Act 2008*; and\n\n(b) any other tax, duty, fee, levy or charge under a law of the State.\n\n(2) State tax is not payable in relation to —\n\n(a) anything that occurs by operation of this Part; or\n\n(b) anything done (including a transaction entered into or an instrument or document of any kind made, executed, lodged or given) under this Part, or to give effect to this Part, or for a purpose connected with or arising out of giving effect to this Part.\n\n(3) The Minister may certify in writing that —\n\n(a) a specified thing occurred by operation of this Part; or\n\n(b) a specified thing was done under this Part, or to give effect to this Part, or for a purpose connected with or arising out of giving effect to this Part.\n\n(4) For all purposes and in all proceedings, a certificate under subsection (3) is sufficient evidence of the matters it certifies unless the contrary is shown.\n\n[Section 47 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 48. Operating accounts of Authority\n\n(1) In this section —\n\nformer accounts means —\n\n(a) the Western Australian Alcohol and Drug Authority Account referred to in the former Act section 28(2); and\n\n(b) any other operating accounts of the Authority.\n\n(2) On transition day, any moneys standing to the credit of the former accounts must be credited to an operating account of the Department and the former accounts must then be closed.\n\n(3) Moneys referred to in subsection (2) may be applied —\n\n(a) in the payment of any liabilities of the former accounts arising before transition day; and\n\n(b) for the purposes of this Act.\n\n(4) The operating account referred to in subsection (2) must be credited with any money payable to the former accounts before transition day that is paid on or after that day.\n\n(5) On and after transition day, any agreement, instrument or other document that contains a reference to any of the former accounts has effect as if the reference were to the operating account referred to in subsection (2).\n\n[Section 48 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 49. Investments\n\n(1) Despite the repeal of the former Act Part IV, the investment of any funds of the Authority that was authorised under the former Act section 30 immediately before transition day continues on and after transition day to be authorised as if that section had not been repealed.\n\n(2) Funds referred to in subsection (1) that cease to be invested as described in that subsection must be credited to an operating account of the Department.\n\n[Section 49 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n### Division 4 — Authority’s staff\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 50. Employees of Authority\n\n(1) A person who, immediately before transition day, held an appointment under the former Act section 21(1)(a) that required the person to be a medical practitioner is to be taken, on and after transition day, to be appointed under the amended Act section 15(1)(b).\n\n(2) A person who, immediately before transition day, held another appointment under the former Act section 21(1)(a) is to be taken, on and after transition day, to be a public service officer employed in the Department.\n\n(3) A person who, immediately before transition day, held an appointment under the former Act section 21(1)(b) is to be taken, on and after transition day, to be appointed under the amended Act section 15(1)(c).\n\n(4) A person who, immediately before transition day, is a senior executive officer (as defined in the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* section 3(1)) employed in the Authority is to be taken, on and after transition day, to be a senior executive officer employed in the Department.\n\n[Section 50 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 51. Preservation of rights\n\n(1) This section applies in relation to a person to whom section 50 applies.\n\n(2) Except as otherwise agreed by the person, the operation of section 50 does not —\n\n(a) affect the person’s pay as defined in the *Public Sector Management (Redeployment and Redundancy) Regulations 1994* 1 regulation 3(1); or\n\n(b) affect the person’s existing or accruing rights in respect of annual leave, long service leave, sick leave or any other leave; or\n\n(c) affect any rights under a superannuation scheme; or\n\n(d) interrupt the continuity of the person’s service.\n\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(d), the person’s service with the Authority is to be taken to have been service in the Department.\n\n[Section 51 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n### Division 5 — Continuation of certain things\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 52. Completion of things done\n\nAnything commenced to be done by the Authority before transition day may be continued on and after transition day by a relevant successor so far as the doing of the thing is within the relevant successor’s functions.\n\n[Section 52 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 53. Continuing effect of things done\n\n(1) This section applies in relation to an act or omission done or omitted before transition day by, to or in respect of the Authority to the extent that the act or omission —\n\n(a) has force or significance; and\n\n(b) is not governed by another provision of this Part.\n\n(2) On and after transition day, the act or omission is to be taken to have been done or omitted by, to or in respect of a relevant successor so far as the act or omission relates to the relevant successor’s functions.\n\n[Section 53 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 54. Agreements, instruments, proceedings and remedies generally\n\n(1) Subsection (2) applies to any agreement or instrument to which section 41 does not apply.\n\n(2) On and after transition day, any agreement or instrument that contains a reference to the Authority has effect as if the reference were to a relevant successor so far as the reference relates to the relevant successor’s functions, unless the context otherwise requires.\n\n(3) Subsection (4) applies in relation to any proceedings or remedy to which section 41 does not apply.\n\n(4) On and after transition day, any proceedings or remedy that might have been commenced or continued by or against, or might have been available to or against, the Authority may be commenced or continued by or against, or is available to or against, a relevant successor so far as the proceedings or remedy are in respect of an act, matter or thing that is within the relevant successor’s functions.\n\n[Section 54 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n### Division 6 — Other matters\n\n[Heading inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 55. Authority’s records to be delivered to CEO\n\nAs soon as practicable after transition day, all papers, documents, minutes, books of account and other records (however compiled, recorded or stored) of the Authority must be delivered to the CEO.\n\n[Section 55 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 56. Transitional regulations\n\n(1) In this section —\n\npublication day, for regulations made under subsection (2), means the day on which those regulations are published in the *Gazette*;\n\nspecified means specified or described in regulations made under subsection (2);\n\ntransitional matter —\n\n(a) means a matter that needs to be dealt with for the purpose of effecting the statutory transition; and\n\n(b) includes a saving or application matter.\n\n(2) If there is no sufficient provision in this Part or in a transfer order for dealing with a transitional matter, the Governor may make regulations prescribing matters —\n\n(a) required to be prescribed for the purpose of dealing with the transitional matter; or\n\n(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the purpose of dealing with the transitional matter.\n\n(3) Regulations made under subsection (2) may provide that specified provisions of this Act —\n\n(a) do not apply to or in relation to a specified matter; or\n\n(b) apply with specified modifications to or in relation to a specified matter.\n\n(4) If regulations made under subsection (2) provide that a specified state of affairs is to be taken to have existed, or not to have existed, on and after a day that is earlier than publication day for those regulations but not earlier than transition day, the regulations have effect according to their terms.\n\n(5) If regulations made under subsection (2) contain a provision referred to in subsection (4), the provision does not operate so as —\n\n(a) to affect in a manner prejudicial to a person (other than the State or an authority of the State) the rights of that person existing before publication day for those regulations; or\n\n(b) to impose liabilities on a person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of an act done or omission made before publication day for those regulations.\n\n(6) Regulations can only be made under subsection (2) within 24 months after the day on which the *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015* receives the Royal Assent.\n\n[Section 56 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 57. Effect on other instruments, rights and obligations\n\nThe operation of this Part or a transfer order must not be regarded —\n\n(a) as a breach of contract or confidence or otherwise as a civil wrong; or\n\n(b) as a breach of any contractual provision prohibiting, restricting or regulating the assignment or transfer of assets, rights or liabilities or the disclosure of information; or\n\n(c) as giving rise to any remedy by a party to an instrument, or as causing or permitting the termination of any instrument, because of a change in the beneficial or legal ownership of any assets, rights or liabilities; or\n\n(d) as causing any contract or instrument to be void or otherwise unenforceable; or\n\n(e) as releasing or allowing the release of any surety.\n\n[Section 57 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n##### 58. *Interpretation Act 1984* not affected\n\nExcept to the extent this Part expressly provides differently, the *Interpretation Act 1984* applies in relation to the repeal of an enactment by the *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015* Part 2.\n\n[Section 58 inserted: No. 3 of 2015 s. 13.]\n\n![A:\\dline.gif]()\n\nNotes\n\nThis is a compilation of the *Alcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974* and includes amendments made by other written laws. For provisions that have come into operation, and for information about any reprints, see the compilation table. For provisions that have not yet come into operation see the uncommenced provisions table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Short title** | **Number and year** | **Assent** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| *Alcohol and Drug Authority Act 1974* 2 | 32 of 1974 | 4 Nov 1974 | 29 Nov 1974 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 29 Nov 1974 p. 5167) |\n| *Acts Amendment and Repeal (Disqualification for Parliament) Act 1984* Pt. II | 78 of 1984 | 14 Nov 1984 | 1 Jul 1985 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 17 May 1985 p. 1671) |\n| *Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985* s. 3 | 98 of 1985 | 4 Dec 1985 | 1 Jul 1986 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 30 Jun 1986 p. 2255) |\n| *Acts Amendment (Public Service) Act 1987* s. 32 | 113 of 1987 | 31 Dec 1987 | 16 Mar 1988 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 16 Mar 1988 p. 813) |\n| *Guardianship and Administration Act 1990* s. 123 | 24 of 1990 | 7 Sep 1990 | 20 Oct 1992 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 2 Oct 1992 p. 4811) |\n| *Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994* s. 19 | 32 of 1994 | 29 Jun 1994 | 1 Oct 1994 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 30 Sep 1994 p. 4948) |\n| *Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996* s. 4 | 14 of 1996 | 28 Jun 1996 | 1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2) |\n| *Financial Legislation Amendment Act 1996* s. 48 and 64 | 49 of 1996 | 25 Oct 1996 | 25 Oct 1996 (see s. 2(1)) |\n| *Trustees Amendment Act 1997* s. 18 | 1 of 1997 | 6 May 1997 | 16 Jun 1997 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 10 Jun 1997 p. 2661) |\n| *Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act (No. 2) 1998* s. 76 | 10 of 1998 | 30 Apr 1998 | 30 Apr 1998 (see s. 2(1)) |\n| **Reprint of the *Alcohol and Drug Authority Act 1974* as at 1 Apr 1999** (includes amendments listed above) | | | |\n| *Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006* Sch. 1 cl. 8 | 77 of 2006 | 21 Dec 2006 | 1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and *Gazette* 19 Jan 2007 p. 137) |\n| *Medical Practitioners Act 2008* Sch. 3 cl. 2 | 22 of 2008 | 27 May 2008 | 1 Dec 2008 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 25 Nov 2008 p. 4989) |\n| *Acts Amendment (Bankruptcy) Act 2009* s. 8 | 18 of 2009 | 16 Sep 2009 | 17 Sep 2009 (see s. 2(b)) |\n| **Reprint 2: The *Alcohol and Drug Authority Act 1974* as at 5 Feb 2010** (includes amendments listed above) | | | |\n| *Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010* Pt. 5 Div. 2 | 35 of 2010 | 30 Aug 2010 | 18 Oct 2010 (see s. 2(b) and *Gazette* 1 Oct 2010 p. 5075-6) |\n| *Public Sector Reform Act 2010* s. 90 | 39 of 2010 | 1 Oct 2010 | 1 Dec 2010 (see s. 2(b) and *Gazette* 5 Nov 2010 p. 5563) |\n| *Alcohol and Drug Authority Amendment Act 2015* Pt. 2 | 3 of 2015 | 25 Feb 2015 | s. 13: 25 Feb 2015 (see s. 2(a));   Pt. 2 (other than s. 13): 1 Jul 2015 (see s. 2(b) and *Gazette* 10 Apr 2015 p. 1249) |\n| **Reprint 3: The *Alcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974* as at 5 Feb 2016** (includes amendments listed above) | | | |\n\n\nUncommenced provisions table\n\nTo view the text of the uncommenced provisions see *Acts as passed* on the WA Legislation website.\n\n| **Short title** | **Number and year** | **Assent** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| *State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000* s. 29 | 43 of 2000 | 2 Nov 2000 | To be proclaimed (see s. 2(2)) |\n\n\nOther notes\n\n1 Repealed by the *Public Sector Management (Redeployment and Redundancy) Regulations 2014*.\n\n2 Now known as the *Alcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974*; short title amended (see note under s. 1).\n\nDefined terms\n\n*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*\n\n**Defined term Provision(s)**\n\nacquire 8(1)\n\namended Act 38\n\nassets 38\n\nAuthority 38\n\nCEO 4\n\nDepartment 4\n\ndispose of 8(1)\n\nemployer 16(1)\n\nfacility 4\n\nformer accounts 48(1)\n\nformer Act 38\n\nLAA 38\n\nliabilities 38\n\nmedical practitioner 4\n\nMinister for Lands 38\n\nMinisterial Body 4\n\noperating account 38\n\npublication day 56(1)\n\nrelevant official 38\n\nrelevant successor 38\n\nrights 38\n\nspecified 56(1)\n\nstaff member 4\n\nState tax 47(1)\n\nstatutory transition 38\n\nthis Part 38\n\ntransfer order 38, 42(1)\n\ntransition day 38\n\ntransitional matter 56(1)\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":7,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The 2015 amendments reorganised the Act’s administrative architecture and introduced new commercial and corporate powers that go beyond purely clinical and research functions of the original Authority. Mechanically, the Authority was abolished and replaced by a Ministerial Body and the Department (CEO) as the operating entity (ss.5, 39–41). The Act added express powers to acquire, exploit and dispose of property and intellectual property, and to provide and monetise education, training and advertising opportunities (s.8). It also broadened contracting, secondment and outsourcing mechanisms (ss.15–17) and created detailed transfer mechanisms (ss.41–46). Those changes preserve the stated public‑health purposes but materially expand the statutory toolkit available to the Minister/CEO — introducing clearer commercial, asset‑management and transitional powers that were not central to the original 1974 Authority model."},"complexity_factors":["Extensive transitional Part (Part 6, ss.38–58) with transfer orders, schedules and corrective powers","Multiple cross‑references to other Acts (Public Sector Management Act 1994, Financial Management Act 2006, Land Administration Act 1997, Duties Act 2008, Interpretation Act 1984)","Around 25–30 defined terms used across the Act (definitions in s.4 and s.38) creating interpretive dependencies","Layered delegation rules: Minister→CEO (s.9), CEO→staff/externals with Ministerial approval and written form (s.13)","Conditional powers requiring Minister’s consent for key activities (establishing premises/accommodation/cooperation) (s.11(1)(b),(c),(h))","Discretionary commercial powers (property, IP, advertising) that broaden administrative scope (s.8) and require procedural formalities (s.7)","Transfer mechanics allowing substitution in proceedings and preserving immunities and rights, reducing contractual remedies (ss.41–46, 40, 57)","Regulations power with delegated discretion and penalty provisions, plus limited‑time transitional regulation power (s.36; s.56(6))","Preservation of staff rights and complex employment-status transitions (ss.50–51), involving interaction with public sector employment law"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this law does (simple answer)**\n\n- Establishes a modern administrative structure to deliver treatment, care and rehabilitation for people with alcohol or other drug problems and related health issues (including co‑occurring mental illness). (Long title; s.11)\n- Replaces the old statutory Authority with a Minister‑led corporate body (the \"Ministerial Body\") and makes the Department (through its CEO) the day‑to‑day manager of the services. (s.5, s.10, Pt.6 Divs.2–4)\n- Gives the Minister, the CEO and the Ministerial Body powers to run facilities, set fees, engage staff and contractors, hold and deal with property, support research and education, and enter commercial arrangements (including exploiting intellectual property and advertising opportunities). (s.6, s.8, s.11, s.17)\n- Provides detailed transitional rules for transferring the old Authority’s assets, liabilities, staff and records to the Ministerial Body or the State and preserves existing rights and immunities during that transfer. (Pt.6, ss.41–58)\n\n**Who is affected**\n\n- People seeking or receiving treatment for alcohol or other drug problems: service eligibility, fees and admission rules may be set by the CEO with Ministerial approval (s.11, s.19).\n- Staff and medical practitioners working in those services: employment, secondment and contracting arrangements are governed by the Act; existing staff rights are preserved on transfer (ss.15–17; ss.50–51).\n- The Minister and the CEO: the Minister governs the Ministerial Body and may delegate many powers to the CEO (ss.5, 9–10, 13).\n- Private providers, contractors and research bodies: the CEO can subsidise, support, contract with and cooperate with outside organisations (s.11; s.17).\n- Parties to existing agreements with the old Authority: transfer orders and substitution provisions move some contracts, assets and liabilities to the Ministerial Body or State and preserve contractual effect (ss.41–46, 54).\n- Landholders and Crown land managers where reserves were managed by the Authority: the Act specifies how management orders transfer (s.44).\n\n**How the law works, mechanically**\n\n- Governance and legal personality: the Ministerial Body is a corporate entity governed by the Minister; it has Crown status and can sue/ be sued in its corporate name (s.5).\n- Execution and formalities: the Ministerial Body uses a common seal; certain people (Minister, CEO or authorised person) may sign documents; facsimiles are admissible (s.7).\n- Operational powers: the CEO runs the services subject to Ministerial control, can create facilities, accommodation and other services (subject to Minister’s consent for certain matters), decide who is eligible for services, and promote/subsidise research and education (s.10–11).\n- Commercial powers: the Minister (and so the Ministerial Body) can acquire, hold and dispose of property, exploit intellectual property, provide education/training for money and offer advertising or similar revenue opportunities (s.8).\n- Fees and enforcement: the CEO may fix fees for facility services and recover unpaid fees as debts to the State (s.19; s.34).\n- Delegation: the Minister may delegate to the CEO (s.9); the CEO may delegate to staff or, with Ministerial approval, to external persons (s.13). Delegations must be written.\n- Regulations and penalties: the Governor may make regulations about conduct in facilities, trespass and related matters; penalties up to $500 can be prescribed (s.36).\n- Transition of the old Authority: a suite of transfer, registration and corrective powers lets the Minister move selected assets, liabilities, agreements and proceedings to the Ministerial Body or to the State; transfer orders may use schedules (some not published) and must respect certain approvals (e.g. Minister for Lands where land interests are affected) (ss.41–46, 42(6), 45).\n\n**What the Act says it is for (stated purpose) and how that interacts with tangible powers**\n\n- Stated purpose: to provide treatment/care/rehabilitation, and to promote/subsidise research and education about alcohol and other drugs and related health issues (Long title; s.11(f)).\n- Interaction with powers: the Act gives the Minister/CEO not only clinical and service powers but also commercial tools (property, IP, advertising, training) and contracting powers (s.8; s.17). Those commercial tools can be used to turn services or knowledge into revenue streams that support the stated purposes (s.6(2), s.8(2)(b)–(d)).\n\n**Costs, incentives and trade‑offs (practical effects to watch for)**\n\n- Who pays: the State funds core services; the CEO may charge fees (recoverable as a State debt, s.34); the Ministerial Body may generate revenue by exploiting IP, training courses or advertising (s.8). Costs could therefore be borne partly by service users, partly by taxpayers, and partly offset by commercial revenue.\n- Incentives created: the commercial powers create incentives to develop revenue‑generating activities (training, IP, advertising). That can lower reliance on the budget but also shifts managerial attention toward monetisable outputs (s.8). The CEO’s power to subsidise or support other providers (s.11(a)–(c)) creates incentives for outsourcing and funding private/NGO service delivery.\n- Effects on private enterprise and competition: the CEO can contract for services (s.17), subsidise external providers (s.11), and decide which classes of person receive subsidised care (s.11(e)). This enables private providers to participate, but the Ministerial Body’s ability to hold and exploit IP or offer training and advertising could compete with private training or commercial providers (s.8).\n- Contract freedom and substitution effects: transfer orders (ss.41–42) and section 57 limit the ability of counterparties to treat transfers as contract breaches, reducing contractual disruption risk but also removing some counterparty remedies that might have previously constrained assignment.\n- Concentrated benefits vs diffuse costs: the Ministerial Body and parties who secure contracts, advertising or IP exploitation stand to gain concentrated benefits. Costs are more diffuse (taxpayers, service users facing fees, market competitors), depending on how the commercial powers are used.\n\n**Implementation and compliance risks**\n\n- Administrative complexity: the Act creates multiple decision nodes (Minister, CEO, Ministerial Body, Advisory Board, Public Sector Commissioner) and layers of approvals (Minister’s consent for some facilities and delegations, Ministerial approval for CEO delegation to external persons), increasing administrative friction and potential delay (ss.9, 11(2), 13(1)–(2)).\n- Transitional execution risk: transfer orders may rely on unpublished schedules and require coordination with land registries and the Minister for Lands (ss.42(3)–(8), 45). Regulations to deal with gaps can be made but only within a limited time window (s.56(6)).\n- Discretion and accountability: many powers are discretionary (who to subsidise, fees, commercialisation, delegation approvals). That concentrates decision authority in the Minister/CEO and shifts operational choices into administrative hands (s.11, s.8, s.13).\n\n**Bottom line — who decides, who pays, what behaviour changes**\n\n- Who decides: the Minister (governing the Ministerial Body) and the CEO (responsible for administration) make the core decisions; the Minister controls key consents and some delegations (s.5, s.9, s.10–11, s.13).\n- Who pays: the State (via Department budgets) funds services; the Act allows fees charged to users (s.19; s.34) and permits the Ministerial Body to generate revenue through property/IP/training/advertising (s.8).\n- What changes in behaviour are likely: more contracting out or subsidising of external providers, use of commercial revenue streams to support services, and consolidation of governance under the Minister/CEO rather than an independent Authority. These follow from the CEO’s power to engage contractors and subsidise others (s.17; s.11), and the Ministerial Body’s corporate and commercial powers (s.5; s.8).\n\n(References in parentheses are to the relevant sections of the Act.)"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":6,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Originally enacted in 1974 as the Alcohol and Drug Authority Act, the legislation established an independent statutory authority (the Western Australian Alcohol and Drug Authority) with its own governing structure. The 2015 amendments fundamentally transformed the Act from creating an independent authority to establishing a departmental model where functions are performed by the Minister and CEO. The scope shifted from creating a standalone agency to providing a complex transitional framework for abolishing that agency and transferring its functions to existing departmental structures. The current Act retains the original service delivery purposes but now operates through a different governance model (Ministerial Body/Department rather than independent Authority)."},"complexity_factors":["Extensive transitional provisions (Part 6) dealing with the abolition of the former Alcohol and Drug Authority, including complex asset transfers, liability assignments, and staff transfers","Multiple defined terms (20+ in section 38 alone for transitional matters) with nested definitions (e.g., 'assets' includes legal estates, money, securities, choses in action)","Cross-references to at least 6 other Acts: Public Sector Management Act 1994, Financial Management Act 2006, Land Administration Act 1997, Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, Duties Act 2008, Interpretation Act 1984","Conditional logic in delegation provisions (Minister can delegate to CEO, but CEO cannot sub-delegate those specific powers; CEO can delegate to staff or others with Ministerial approval)","Complex corporate law mechanisms for the Ministerial Body including seal execution rules, presumptions of validity, and facsimile usage","Savings and continuation provisions that create legal fictions (treating certain acts as done by new entities when they were originally done by the abolished Authority)","Interplay between general public sector employment law and specific employment powers under this Act (sections 15-18)"],"plain_english_summary":"This Western Australian law sets up the system for helping people with alcohol and drug problems, including those who also have mental health issues.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Treatment and care**: Allows the government to run facilities (like rehab centres) for people struggling with alcohol or drug use, including those with co-occurring mental illness.\n- **Research and education**: Funds studies and public education about the causes, prevention and treatment of addiction and related mental health issues.\n- **Coordination**: Creates a body called the \"Ministerial Body\" (a legal entity representing the Minister) to manage property and contracts, and establishes an advisory board to give expert advice.\n\n**Who runs it:**\n- The **Minister** oversees everything and can delegate powers to the **CEO** (Chief Executive Officer) of the Department.\n- The **CEO** runs day-to-day operations, manages facilities, sets fees for services, and can employ staff including doctors and other health workers.\n- The **Advisory Board** provides independent advice to the CEO.\n\n**Key changes from 2015:**\nThe law used to establish an independent \"Alcohol and Drug Authority\" (a separate government agency). In 2015, this Authority was abolished and its functions transferred to the Minister and CEO. Part 6 contains detailed transitional rules to move assets, staff, and legal obligations from the old Authority to the new structure without disrupting services.\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThis law ensures there is a legal framework for publicly funded drug and alcohol treatment services in WA. It protects patient rights (requiring inquiries into deaths or serious injuries in facilities), allows the system to own property and employ specialists, and ensures continuity of care when government structures change."},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Unable to assess whether the scope of the legislation changed from its original intent, as no legislative text was retrievable from the provided source. The page returned an error indicating the content has been moved or removed from the Western Australian legislation website."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative content was available for analysis — the source URL returned a 404-style error page","Cannot assess complexity without access to actual provisions, definitions, or operative clauses","Score of 1 reflects absence of content, not simplicity of the underlying law"],"plain_english_summary":"**⚠️ Content Unavailable**\n\nThe actual text of the *Alcohol and Drug Authority Act 1974* (WA) could not be retrieved. The page that was provided contains only an error message indicating the link is broken or outdated, along with a standard government acknowledgement of country.\n\n**What we do know:**\n- This is a **Western Australian law** dealing with alcohol and drug-related authority or governance\n- It dates from **1974**, suggesting it has been in operation for over 50 years\n- To find the current version, visit the Western Australian legislation website and search directly for the Act\n\n**No legal analysis can be reliably provided without the actual legislative text.**"},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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