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This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1983 (REPEALED) - SECT 56

56. A committee shall not recommend that the Director approve the performance of psychiatric surgery unless the committee is satisfied—

        (a)     that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the performance of the surgery will result in substantial benefit to the person on whom it is to be performed; and

        (b)     that all alternative forms of treatment reasonably available have failed, or are likely to fail, to benefit that person.

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