Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (TREATMENT AND CARE) ACT 1994 - SECT 65

Where the Supreme Court is, on application by a doctor, satisfied that—

        (a)     the person in relation to whom the application is made has a mental illness; and

        (b)     the person has not given informed consent to the performance of psychiatric surgery and has not refused, either orally or in writing, to consent to such surgery; and

        (c)     there are grounds for believing that the performance of such surgery is likely to result in substantial benefit to the person; and

        (d)     all alternative forms of treatment reasonably available have failed, or are likely to fail, to benefit the person;

the court may, by order, consent to the performance of psychiatric surgery on the person.