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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 (NO. 26 OF 2014) - SECT 6

What is treatment?

For the purposes of this Act—

        (a)     a person receives treatment for mental illness if things are done to the person in the course of the exercise of professional skills—

              (i)     to remedy the mental illness; or

              (ii)     to alleviate the symptoms and reduce the ill effects of the mental illness; and

        (b)     "treatment" includes electroconvulsive treatment and neurosurgery for mental illness.



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