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Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
48Application of Part
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48 Application of Part
(1) This Part does not apply in relation to the following—
(a) medical treatment that is treatment for mental illness at any time that the person being treated is a mental health patient;
(b) neurosurgery for mental illness.
Note to s. 48(1) amended by No. 39/2022 s. 848.
See Chapter 3 of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022.
(2) Nothing in this Part affects the operation of section 24 of the Human Tissue Act 1982.