Queensland Consolidated Acts

POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT 1998 - SECT 103

103 Protection of health provider for non-compliance with advance health directive

(1) This section applies if a health provider has reasonable grounds to believe that a direction in an advance health directive is uncertain or inconsistent with good medical practice or that circumstances, including advances in medical science, have changed to the extent that the terms of the direction are inappropriate.

(2) The health provider does not incur any liability, either to the adult or anyone else, if the health provider does not act in accordance with the direction.

(3) However, if an attorney is appointed under the advance health directive, the health provider has reasonable grounds to believe that a direction in the advance health directive is uncertain only if, among other things, the health provider has consulted the attorney about the direction.