MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 8 Application to person with intellectual disability

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 8

8 Application to person with intellectual disability

To the extent this Act applies to a person who has an intellectual disability—

(a) sections 3 and 5 apply in relation to the person as if a reference in the sections to a person who has a mental illness were a reference to a person who has an intellectual disability; and

(b) a reference in the Act to treatment and care of a person means a reference to care of the person; and

(c) a reference in the Act to recovery of a person means a reference to the rehabilitation, and development of living skills, of the person.