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.]