(c) “cost of maintenance” in relation to a mentally disordered person, includes the cost of
lodging, maintenance, clothing, medicine and care of mentally disordered person and any
expenditure incurred in removing such mentally disordered person to and from a
psychiatric facility together with any other charges specified in this behalf by the
Government;
(d) “Court of Protection” means a District Court having jurisdiction under this Ordinance in
matters specified herein and designated as such by the Government;
(e) “Court” means a Court of Protection;
(f) “Government” means the Federal Government or, as the case may be, the Provincial
Government;
(g) “health facility” means any basic health unit, rural health centre, Tehsil hospital, district
hospital, teaching hospital and any private medical facility, supervised by a medical
practitioner;
(h) “hospital management” means personnel operating and or managing any psychiatric
facility or a health facility that has provision for indoor treatment for the mentally
disordered;
(i) “informed consent” means voluntary and continuing permission of the patient or if the
patient is a minor his nearest relative or guardian, as the case may be, for assessment or to
receive a particular treatment based on an adequate knowledge of the purpose, nature,
likely effects, and risks of that treatment including the likelihood of its success and any
alternatives to it and the cost of treatment;
(j) "Magistrate" means a Judicial Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the
Government to perform functions and exercise powers of a Magistrate under this
Ordinance;
(k) “medical officer” means a medical graduate serving in a Government health facility and
registered with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council;
(l) “medical practitioner” means a medical graduate registered with the Pakistan Medical and
Dental Council with good standing;
(m) “mental disorder” means mental illness, including mental impairment, severe personality
disorder, severe mental impairment and any other disorder or disability of mind and
"mentally disordered" shall be construed accordingly and as explained hereunder;
(i) “mental impairment” means a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind
(not amounting to severe mental impairment) which includes significant impairment
of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or
seriously
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