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Guardianship and Administration Act 2000
sch.2-sec.11Primary reason for treatment
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### sch.2-sec.11 Primary reason for treatment
Health care primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease , of an adult, is health care without which an organic malfunction or disease of the adult is likely to cause serious or irreversible damage to the adult’s physical health.
Health care involving sterilisation may be primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease if the adult has cancer affecting the reproductive system or cryptorchidism.
A procedure involving termination of a pregnancy may be primarily to treat organic malfunction if the adult is a pregnant woman requiring abdominal surgery for injuries sustained in an accident.
- 1 Health care involving sterilisation may be primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease if the adult has cancer affecting the reproductive system or cryptorchidism.
- 2 A procedure involving termination of a pregnancy may be primarily to treat organic malfunction if the adult is a pregnant woman requiring abdominal surgery for injuries sustained in an accident.