“mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped”, in relation to any person, means that the person is suffering from mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder or any other disorder or disability of the mind; “Minister” means the Minister of Health and Child Welfare or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act; “patient” means a person— (a) who is mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped; or (b) concerning whom proceedings under this Act are considered necessary to determine whether or not he is mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped; “psychiatric nurse” means a person who is registered as a psychiatric nurse in terms of the Health Professions Act [Chapter 27:19]; [Definition amended by Act 6/2000] “psychiatric nurse practitioner” means a person who is registered as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in terms of the Health Professions Act [Chapter 27:19 ]; [Definition amended by Act 6/2000] “psychopathic disorder” means a persistent disorder or disability of the mind, whether or not subnormality of intelligence is present, which— (a) has existed or is believed to have existed in the patient since before he was eighteen years old; and (b) results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient; “reception order” means an order issued by a magistrate under section eight or twenty-six for the removal of a patient to, and his reception and detention in, an institution or in single care; “Registrar of the High Court” includes an assistant registrar of the High Court; “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Ministry for which the Minister is responsible; “single care” means single care as mentioned in subsection (1) of section ten or paragraph (b) of subsection (2) or (3) of section forty-seven; “social worker” means— (a) a person who is registered as a clinical social worker in terms of the Health Professions Act [Chapter 27:19 ]; [Paragraph amended by Act 6/2000 with effect from the 2nd April, 2001.] or (b) a member of such other class of persons as the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, has declared to be social workers for the purposes of this Act; “special board” means a board established in terms of subsection (1) of section seventy-three as a special board, or directed in terms of the proviso to that subsection to be a special board; “special institution” means a mental hospital or other place which the Minister, with the approval of the Minister responsible for justice, has declared by notice in the Gazette to be a special institution for the purposes of this Act; “superintendent”, in relation to an institution, special institution or other place, means the person in charge of, or the medical superintendent of, that institution, special institution or other place; “temporary patient” means a person who is received as a temporary patient in terms of section fifty-three; “urgency application” means an application made in terms of section eleven. 3 Persons not to be received or detained as patients except in accordance with this Act No person shall be received or detained as a patient in an institution, special institution or other place except under an order of a magistrate or the High Court or otherwise in accordance with this Act. PART II RECEPTION OF CERTIFIED P ATIENTS 4 Application for reception order (1) Subject to this Part, an application for a reception order in respect of a pers on who is believed to be mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped shall be made in the prescribed form by a close relative of the patient or by any other person who has attained the age of eighteen years. (2) In an application in terms of subsection (1), the applicant shall state— (a) that he believes the patient is mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped; and (b) the grounds on which he believes the patient is mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped; and