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GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 110ZL

110ZL .         Validity of certain treatment decisions

                If a health professional —

            (a)         commences or continues palliative care in relation to a patient; or

            (b)         does not commence or discontinues any treatment of a patient,

                in accordance with a treatment decision that is —

            (c)         in an advance health directive made by the patient; or

            (d)         made by the patient’s guardian or enduring guardian or the person responsible for the patient under section 110ZD,

                the health professional is taken for all purposes to have done so in accordance with a valid treatment decision, even if an effect of doing so is to hasten the death of the patient.

        [Section 110ZL inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11.]



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