Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) An advance care directive is a document that sets out a person's binding instructions or preferences and values in relation to the medical treatment of that person in the event that the person does not have decision-making capacity for that medical treatment.
(2) An advance care directive may contain either or both of the following—
(a) an instructional directive;
(b) a values directive.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), each of the following is a values directive—
(a) any statement that is not expressly identified on the face of the document as an instructional directive;
(b) any instructional directive that is of unclear or uncertain application in relation to particular circumstances but that is still indicative of a person's preferences or values in relation to those circumstances;
(c) any statement—
(i) purporting to consent to a special medical procedure; or
Note
See Part 4A of the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 .
(ii) concerning palliative care; or
(iii) made in a document of another State or a Territory recognised as an advance care directive under section 95.