Victorian Numbered Acts

MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 (NO. 69 OF 2016) - SECT 143

    (1)     Insert the following heading to section 42G of the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 —

" Special medical procedure without consent of Tribunal an offence ".

    (2)     In section 42G(1) of the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 —

        (a)     for "section 42A" substitute " section 53 of the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016 ";

        (b)     for "any special procedure" substitute "any special medical procedure";

        (c)     for paragraph (b) substitute —

    "(b)     the patient's medical treatment decision maker, with authority to consent to the continuation of the procedure or a further special medical procedure under section 42F, has consented to the carrying out of that procedure.".

    (3)         In section 42G(2) of the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 , for "special procedure" substitute "special medical procedure".