s 5 Definition of “ mental disorder ”’
(1) For references in the principal Act to mental deficiency there shall be substituted references to mental handicap. (2) Section 6 of the principal Act (which defines “ mental disorder ”) shall be renumbered as subsection (1) of that section and after that subsection (as so renumbered) there shall be inserted the following subsection— ‘**(2) No person shall be treated under this Act as suffering from mental disorder by reason only of promiscuity or other immoral conduct, sexual deviancy or dependence on alcohol or drugs.”. (3) In section 96 of the principal Act (which makes provision as to the protection of female defectives)— (a) for the words “a defective ” in each place where they occur there shall be substituted the words “ protected by the provisions of this section ” ; (b) after subsection (6) there shall be inserted the following subsection— **(6A) A woman is protected by the provisions of this section if she is suffering from a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning ” ; and (c) in subsection (7) the definition of “ defective ” and the word “and” which follows it shall cease to have effect.