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GUARDIANSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY ACT 1991 - SECT 32O

Interested person may withdraw health attorney's consent to low-risk research

    (1)     This section applies if a health attorney consents to a protected person participating in low-risk research under section 32D.

    (2)     An interested person for the protected person may withdraw the health attorney's consent.

    (3)     If the interested person withdraws the consent, any data or bodily tissue collected from the protected person while the person was participating in the research must be removed from the research, unless the interested person agrees, in writing, that the data or bodily tissue may be kept.

    (4)     In this section:

"interested person", for a protected person, means each of the following:

        (a)     if, despite section 32A, definition of "protected person", paragraph (b), the protected person has appointed an attorney under an enduring power of attorney—the attorney;

        (b)     if, despite section 32A, definition of "protected person", paragraph (c), the ACAT has appointed a guardian for the person—the guardian;

        (c)     the protected person.



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