Special health care

Current

Special health care, of a principal, is health care of the following types—

(a)

removal of tissue from the principal while alive for donation to someone else;

Note—

For the situation after the principal has died, see the Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1979, particularly section 22.

(b)

sterilisation of the principal;

(c)

termination of a pregnancy of the principal;

(d)

participation by the principal in special medical research or experimental health care;

(e)

electroconvulsive therapy or a non-ablative neurosurgical procedure for the principal;

(f)

prescribed special health care of the principal.

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