Victorian Numbered Acts

MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 (NO. 69 OF 2016) - SECT 79

This Division applies if a medical research practitioner has taken reasonable steps in the circumstances to—

        (a)     locate a person's instructional directive (if any), but has been unable to do so; and

        (b)     identify and contact the medical treatment decision maker of the person to obtain consent to the administration of a medical research procedure to the person but has been unable to do so.