{"id":"university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997","name":"University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997","slug":"university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":182304,"registerId":"wa-university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nUniversity Medical School, Teaching Hospitals, Act 1955\n\nUniversity Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997\n\nWestern Australia\n\nUniversity Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997\n\nContents\n\n1. Citation 1\n\n2. Commencement 1\n\n3. Mental health hospital 1\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 2\n\n  \n\nWestern Australia\n\nUniversity Medical School, Teaching Hospitals, Act 1955\n\nUniversity Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997\n\n##### 1. Citation\n\nThese regulations may be cited as the *University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997* 1.\n\n##### 2. Commencement\n\nThese regulations come into operation on the same day as the *Mental Health Act 1996* comes into operation 1.\n\n##### 3. Mental health hospital\n\nGraylands Selby‑Lemnos & Special Care Hospital is to be regarded as a mental health hospital for the purposes of the Act.\n\nNotes\n\n1 This is a reprint as at 2 July 2004 of the *University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997*. The following table contains information about those regulations and any reprint.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Citation** | **Gazettal** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| *University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997* | 7 Nov 1997 p. 6135‑6 | 13 Nov 1997 (see r. 2) |\n| **Reprint 1: The *University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997* as at 2 Jul 2004** | | |\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly scoped to their original purpose. The legislation has not expanded beyond the simple designation of one specific hospital as a mental health hospital for teaching purposes. There are no additional provisions, amendments, or regulatory expansions that would indicate scope creep."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative provisions (citation, commencement, and single substantive rule)","Zero defined terms in the interpretation section","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the parent Act and Mental Health Act 1996","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Total length of approximately 100 words of substantive content","Single straightforward declaration with no qualifications or limitations"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this legislation does:**\n\nThese regulations are a short, technical piece of Western Australian law that serves one specific purpose: it officially designates **Graylands Selby-Lemnos & Special Care Hospital** as a \"mental health hospital\" under the *University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Act 1955*.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n\n- **Medical students and universities** – The designation allows this hospital to be used for teaching purposes by the university medical school.\n- **Patients at Graylands Hospital** – The classification affects how the hospital operates under the broader mental health and teaching hospital framework.\n- **Health administrators** – Those managing the interface between mental health services and medical education.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n\nWithout this regulation, Graylands Selby-Lemnos & Special Care Hospital would not legally qualify as a mental health hospital under the 1955 Act. This matters because:\n- It enables medical students to receive training in mental health care at this specific facility\n- It ensures the hospital can participate in the teaching hospital network established by the parent Act\n- It links the hospital's status to the commencement of the *Mental Health Act 1996*, ensuring coordinated mental health law reform\n\nIn short, this is a small but necessary piece of machinery that connects a specific psychiatric hospital to Western Australia's medical education system."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Regulation 3 explicitly extends the scope of the University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Act 1955 to cover Graylands Selby‑Lemnos & Special Care Hospital by treating it as a mental health hospital (see Reg 3). Reg 2 ties operation of these regulations to the commencement of the Mental Health Act 1996. The instrument changes which institutions fall under the Act’s framework rather than altering the Act’s substantive powers or duties."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument with a single substantive provision (Reg 3 designates the named hospital).","Commencement is linked to another statute (Reg 2 references commencement of the Mental Health Act 1996), requiring cross‑Act timing coordination.","Relies on interpretation of 'for the purposes of the Act' and the definitions in the University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Act 1955 to determine practical effects.","Low compliance and enforcement burden: mainly administrative updates to classification and records.","Minimal fiscal impact within the instrument itself; any budgetary or operational effects depend on downstream administrative or clinical arrangements.","Brevity creates some legal ambiguity about specific administrative consequences for the hospital and university (limited guidance in text)."],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations formally classify Graylands Selby‑Lemnos & Special Care Hospital as a ‘mental health hospital’ for the purposes of the University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Act 1955, and state they start when the Mental Health Act 1996 commences. The change affects that hospital and the institutions governed by the University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Act by altering statutory classification and administrative treatment; there are no direct new fees in the instrument itself."},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed as the legislative text is unavailable. The page returned was a system error notice, not the regulations themselves."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative text was provided — only a broken link error page was available for analysis","Cannot assess complexity without access to the actual regulations","The title suggests potential complexity (medical/university/hospital regulatory intersection) but this cannot be confirmed"],"plain_english_summary":"**No legislation could be analysed.**\n\nThe link provided for the *University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals Regulations 1997* (Western Australia) no longer works. The actual text of the regulations was not available — only an error page from the Western Australian legislation website explaining that the page has been removed or moved due to system upgrades.\n\n**What this means for you:** It is not possible to summarise what this law does, who it affects, or how it might impact you based on the information provided. To find the current version of these regulations, you should:\n- Visit the [Western Australian Legislation website](https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au) and search directly for the title\n- Contact the Parliamentary Counsel's Office Helpdesk as suggested on the error page\n- Check if the regulations have been repealed, replaced, or consolidated into other legislation"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997","history":"/api/acts/university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997/history","analysis":"/api/acts/university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/university-medical-school-teaching-hospitals-regulations-1997/documents"}}