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MEDICAL TREATMENT (HEALTH DIRECTIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 15

Health professionals not liable for certain decisions

    (1)     This section applies if a health professional makes a decision honestly about whether a person—

        (a)     revoked, or intended to revoke, a health direction; or

        (b)     was, or was not, at the time of making a health direction, capable of understanding the nature and effect of the direction.

    (2)     Civil or criminal liability is not incurred only because of the making of the decision.



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