Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269811 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | The type of legal order or legal arrangement, to which a person is a subject of, or party to. |
Context: | The legal status of a person is directly relevant to service provision in some community services areas (for example, care and protection orders in the child protection area, juvenile justice orders, restraining orders in Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)). It may also be useful for agencies to assist in the provision of appropriate legal and other services. Mental health legal status is required to monitor trends in the use of compulsory treatment provisions under State and Territory mental health legislation by Australian hospitals and community health care facilities including, 24 hour community based residential services. Mental health legal status is an essential metadata item within local records for those hospitals and community mental health services that provide psychiatric treatment to involuntary patients. Information on legal status also provides a way of examining the link between clients and the criminal justice system and other service systems. |
Person—legal order/arrangement type
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Person |
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Definition: | A human being. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | Prior to 13 March 2018, the definition of the ‘Person’ Object class was ‘A human being, whether man, woman or child’. From 13 March 2018, the definition was edited by removing the words ‘…whether man, woman or child’ so that a person is defined as ‘A human being’. This amendment was undertaken to align the definition of a person with the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, which recognise that there are sex and gender types that are not exclusively male or female. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd |
Reference documents: | Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016, https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/ ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, 2016. ABS Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 26 July 2016, http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Legal order/arrangement type |
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Definition: | The type of legal order or legal arrangement. |
Property group: | Legal characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Person—legal order/arrangement type, code N Community Services (retired), Standard 29/04/2006 Person—legal order/arrangement type, code N{.N} Community Services (retired), Superseded 02/05/2006 |
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