Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

MEDICAL TREATMENT (HEALTH DIRECTIONS) ACT 2006

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   3.      Dictionary  
   4.      Notes  
   5.      Objectives of Act  
   6.      Other legal rights not affected  

   PART 2--MAKING AND REVOKING HEALTH DIRECTIONS

   7.      Making health directions  
   8.      Requirements for written health directions  
   9.      Requirements for non-written health directions  
   10.     Revocation of health directions  

   PART 3--HEALTH DIRECTIONS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

   11.     People with decision-making capacity to be informed of alternatives  
   12.     Health professionals not to proceed if unsure  
   13.     Notification of patients making or revoking health direction  
   14.     Copy of patients making or revoking health direction  
   15.     Health professionals not liable for certain decisions  
   16.     Protection of health professionals relying on decisions  
   17.     Adequate pain relief  

   PART 4--HEALTH DIRECTIONS AND OTHER STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

   18.     Effect of health directions on later guardian or health attorney  
   19.     Relationship between health directions and enduring powers of attorney  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   20.     Offence to dishonestly induce making or revocation of health  
   21.     Approved forms  
   22.     Regulation-making power  
           DICTIONARY
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