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SEVERE SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE TREATMENT ACT 2010 - SECT 4

Definitions

In this Act—

"ambulance paramedic "means a person employed or engaged by an ambulance service, within the meaning of the Ambulance Services Act 1986

        (a)     as an ambulance paramedic or intensive care paramedic; or

        (b)     in any capacity to provide medical or other assistance to patients in an emergency;

"Court" means the Magistrates' Court;

"criteria for detention and treatment" means the criteria specified in section 8(2);

"detention and treatment order" means an order for the detention and treatment of a person at a treatment centre made under section 20 ;

"family member", of a person, has the same meaning as in section 3A of the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 ;

S. 4 def. of guardian substituted by No. 13/2019 s. 47.1(a).

"guardian" has the same meaning as in the Guardianship and Administration Act 2019 ;

"magistrate" means a person who holds the office of magistrate under section 7 of the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 or acting magistrate under section 9 of that Act;

"manager", of a treatment centre, means the person in charge of the treatment centre or a person acting in that capacity;

S. 4 def. of nurse inserted by No. 39/2010 s. 127(3).

"nurse "means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the nursing and midwifery profession as a nurse (other than as a midwife or as a student);

S. 4 def. of nurse practitioner substituted by No. 39/2010 s. 127(4).

"nurse practitioner "means a nurse whose registration is endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia under section 95 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law;

S. 4 def. of police officer inserted by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 153.1).

"police officer" has the same meaning as in the Victoria Police Act 2013 ;

S. 4 def. of Public Advocate amended by No. 13/2019 s. 47.1(b).

"Public Advocate" has the same meaning as in the Guardianship and Administration Act 2019 ;

S. 4 def. of registered medical practitioner substituted by No. 39/2010 s. 127(1).

"registered medical practitioner "means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the medical profession (other than as a student);

S. 4 def. of registered nurse repealed by No. 39/2010 s. 127(2).

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"Secretary" means the Secretary to the Department of Health;

"senior clinician", of a treatment centre, means—

        (a)     the registered medical practitioner appointed by the governing body of the treatment centre under section 7(2) to be the senior clinician of the centre; or

        (b)     a registered medical practitioner or nurse practitioner who is exercising the powers and functions of the senior clinician delegated to him or her under section 7(3) by the person referred to in paragraph (a);

"treatment" has the meaning given in section 6(1);

"treatment centre" means a premises or service declared by the Secretary under section 7(1) to be a treatment centre;

"treatment team" means the team of people who are employed or engaged by the treatment centre to implement a treatment plan for a person detained at the treatment centre under a detention and treatment order.



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