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Mental Health Act 2015
9Meaning of mental disorder
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9 Meaning of mental disorder mental disorder— (a) means a disturbance or defect, to a substantially disabling degree, of perceptual interpretation, comprehension, reasoning, learning, judgment, memory, motivation or emotion; but (b) does not include a condition that is a mental illness.