MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 13 Definition of treatment

MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 13

  (1)   In this Act:

"treatment" means treatment provided, or action taken, with a view to:

  (a)   restoring a person to physical or mental health or maintaining a person in physical or mental health; or

  (b)   alleviating a person's suffering; or

  (c)   ensuring a person's social well - being.

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), treatment includes:

  (a)   providing accommodation in a hospital or other institution, or providing medical procedures, nursing care, social or domestic assistance or transport; and

  (b)   supplying, renewing, maintaining and repairing artificial replacements, medical aids and other aids and appliances; and

  (c)   providing diagnostic and counselling services;

for the purposes of, or in connection with, any treatment.