Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) ACT 1994 - SECT 5

For this Act, a person is not to be regarded as mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill only because of any of the following:

        (a)     that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express, or has expressed or has refused or failed to express, a particular political opinion or belief;

        (b)     that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express, or has expressed or has refused or failed to express, a particular religious opinion or belief;

        (c)     that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express, or has expressed or has refused or failed to express, a particular philosophy;

        (d)     that the person expresses or refuses or fails to express, or has expressed or has refused or failed to express, a particular sexual preference or sexual orientation;

        (e)     that the person engages in or refuses or fails to engage in, or has engaged in or has refused or failed to engage in, a particular political activity;

        (f)     that the person engages in or refuses or fails to engage in, or has engaged in or has refused or failed to engage in, a particular religious activity;

        (g)     that the person engages in or has engaged in sexual promiscuity;

        (h)     that the person engages in or has engaged in immoral conduct;

              (i)     that the person engages in or has engaged in illegal conduct;

        (j)     that the person takes or has taken alcohol or any other drug;

        (k)     that the person engages in or has engaged in antisocial behaviour.