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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2015 - SECT 9

Meaning of mental disorder

In this Act:

"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.



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