98Definitions

98 Definitions

98 Definitions

In this Part—

involuntary patient includes a forensic patient and a correctional patient.

special medical treatment means—

(a) any treatment, procedure, operation or examination 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) any other kind of treatment declared by the regulations to be special medical treatment for the purposes of this Part.

surgical operation means a surgical procedure, a series of related surgical operations or surgical procedures, and the administration of an anaesthetic for the purpose of medical investigation.

s 98: Am 2008 No 79, Sch 2 [26].