152YQ

Application for banned drinker order

Current

(1)

In this section —

medical practitioner means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the medical profession;

social worker means a person who is a member, or is eligible for membership, of the Australian Association of Social Workers Limited ACN 008 576 010.

(2)

Any of the following persons may apply to the Director to make a banned drinker order for a person —

(a)

a medical practitioner;

(b)

a social worker;

(c)

another person prescribed as a person who can make an application under this section.

(3)

The application —

(a)

must be in writing in the approved form; and

(b)

must contain information to demonstrate that —

(i)

the person the subject of the application is misusing or has misused liquor; and

(ii)

the person’s misuse of liquor is a serious risk to the health, safety or wellbeing of the person or another person;

and

(c)

may contain a request for the banned drinker order to be in force for a period of 3, 6 or 12 months.

[Section 152YQ inserted: No. 25 of 2023 s. 15; amended: No. 20 of 2025 s. 123.]

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