GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 2019 - SECT 140 Definitions

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 2019 - SECT 140

In this Part—

"medical treatment decision maker "has the same meaning as in the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016 ;

"patient" means a person with a disability (irrespective of whether the person is or is not a represented person) who—

        (a)     is of or over the age of 18 years; and

        (b)     does not have decision-making capacity in relation to giving consent to the carrying out of a special medical procedure;

"special medical procedure" means—

        (a)     any procedure that is intended, or is reasonably likely, to have the effect of rendering permanently infertile the person on whom it is carried out; or

        (b)     a termination of pregnancy; or

        (c)     any removal of tissue for the purposes of transplantation to another person; or

        (d)     any other medical treatment within the meaning of the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016 that is prescribed under this Act to be a special medical procedure for the purposes of this Part.