Health (Amendment) Act 2014. The Ordinance defines the terms 'mental disorder', 'mental impairment' 'mentally disordered prisoner' as under:(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 irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned and "mentally impaired" shall be construed accordingly; (ii) "severe personality disorder" means a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including significant impairment of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned; (iii) "severe mental impairment" means a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned and "severely mentally impaired" shall be construed accordingly; (n) "mentally disordered prisoner" means a person, who is a prisoner for whose detention in or removal to a psychiatric facility or other place of safety, an order has been made in accordance with the provisions of section 466 or section 471 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), section 30 of the Prisoners Act, 1900 (III of 1900), section 130 of the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 (XXXIX of 1952), section 143 of the Pakistan Air Force Act, 1953 (VI of 1953) or section 123 of the Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961 (XXXV of 1961); " 30. Almost similar definitions are also available in the Sindh Mental Health Act, 2013, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mental Health Act, 2017 and the Balochistan Mental Health Act, 2019. 31. The definitions of mental illness available in these Provincial Laws led us to examine the definition of the term "mental illness" or "mental disorder" in other jurisdictions. 32. In the United Kingdom, the Mental Health Act, 1983 initially defined the term "mental disorder" to mean mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder and any other disorder or disability of mind. However, this definition has now been substituted with a less restrictive definition

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