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.]