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GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 110ZH

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 110ZH

110ZH .         Terms used

                In this Part —

        advance health directive includes a directive given by a person under the common law containing treatment decisions in respect of the person’s future treatment;

        health professional has the meaning given to that term in the Civil Liability Act 2002 section 5PA;

        patient means a person who needs treatment;

        urgent treatment means treatment urgently needed by a patient —

            (a)         to save the patient’s life; or

            (b)         to prevent serious damage to the patient’s health; or

            (c)         to prevent the patient from suffering or continuing to suffer significant pain or distress,

        but does not include —

            (d)         psychiatric treatment, which is treatment as defined in the Mental Health Act 2014 section 4; or

            (e)         the sterilisation of the patient.

        [Section 110ZH inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11; amended: No. 25 of 2014 s. 21.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11.]