37Special health care matters

37 Special health care matters (1) For this Act, each of the following is a special health care matter for a principal: (a) removal of non-regenerative tissue from the principal while alive for donation to someone else; (b) sterilisation of the principal if the principal is, or is reasonably likely to be, fertile; (c) termination of the principal’s pregnancy; (d) electroconvulsive therapy or psychiatric surgery; (e) requesting access to, revoking a request to access, or accessing voluntary assisted dying; (f) health care prescribed by regulation. Note Health care—see the dictionary. electroconvulsive therapy—see the Mental Health Act 2015, section 145. Things attorneys can and cannot do generally Division 4.3.1 health care primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease, of a principal, means health care without which an organic malfunction or disease of the principal is likely to cause serious or irreversible damage to the principal’s physical health. 1 Health care involving sterilisation may be primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease if the principal has cancer affecting the reproductive system or cryptorchidism.