mental health care user

means a person receiving care, treatment and rehabilitation services or using a health service at a health establishment aimed at enhancing the mental health status of a user, State patient and mentally ill prisoner and where the person concerned is below the age of 18 years or is incapable of taking decisions, and in certain circumstances may include -

a)	prospective user;

b)	the person's next of kin;

c)	a person authorised by any other law or court order to act on that persons behalf;

d)	an administrator appointed in terms of this Act; and

e)	an executor of that deceased person's estate and "user" has a corresponding meaning;