Western Australian Current Acts

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 110ZH

110ZH .         Terms used

                In this Part —

        advance health directive includes a directive given by a person under the common law containing treatment decisions in respect of the person’s future treatment;

        health professional has the meaning given to that term in the Civil Liability Act 2002 section 5PA;

        patient means a person who needs treatment;

        urgent treatment —

            (a)         means treatment (other than the performance of an abortion) urgently needed by a patient —

                  (i)         to save the patient’s life; or

                  (ii)         to prevent serious damage to the patient’s health; or

                  (iii)         to prevent the patient from suffering or continuing to suffer significant pain or distress;

                and

            (b)         includes the performance of an abortion on a patient if performing the abortion is urgently needed —

                  (i)         to save the patient’s life; or

                  (ii)         to prevent serious damage to the patient’s health; or

                  (iii)         to save another foetus,

                but

            (c)         does not include —

                  (i)         psychiatric treatment, which is treatment as defined in the Mental Health Act 2014 section 4; or

                  (ii)         the sterilisation of the patient.

        [Section 110ZH inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11; amended: No. 25 of 2014 s. 21; No. 20 of 2023 s. 44.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 20 of 2023 s. 45.]