New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GUARDIANSHIP ACT 1987 - SECT 44

44 Tribunal may give consent

(1) If, after conducting a hearing into an application for consent to the carrying out of medical or dental treatment on a patient to whom this Part applies, the Tribunal is satisfied that it is appropriate for the treatment to be carried out, it may consent to the carrying out of the treatment.

(2) In considering such an application, the Tribunal shall have regard to:

(a) the views (if any) of:

(i) the patient,

(ii) the person who is proposing that medical or dental treatment be carried out on the patient,

(iii) any persons responsible for the patient, and

(b) the matters referred to in section 42 (2), and

(c) the objects of this Part.

(3) Nothing in this section requires the Tribunal to consider an application relating to a patient if it is not satisfied that the applicant has a sufficient interest in the health and well-being of the patient.