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CONSENT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT AND PALLIATIVE CARE (PRESCRIBED FORMS) AMENDMENT BILL 2003

House of Assembly—No 64

As laid on the table and read a first time, 3 December 2003

South Australia

Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care (Prescribed Forms) Amendment Bill 2003

A Bill For

An Act to amend the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995.



Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995

4 Amendment of section 4—Interpretation

5 Amendment of section 7—Anticipatory grant or refusal of consent to medical treatment

6 Amendment of section 8—Appointment of agent to consent to medical treatment

7 Repeal of Schedules 1 and 2



The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care (Prescribed Forms) Amendment Act 2003.

2—Commencement

This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.


Part 2—Amendment of Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995

4—Amendment of section 4—Interpretation

Section 4, definition of dentist—delete the definition and substitute:

dentist means a person who is registered on the register of dentists or register of specialists under the Dental Practice Act 2001;

5—Amendment of section 7—Anticipatory grant or refusal of consent to medical treatment

Section 7(2)—delete "Schedule 2 or in a form prescribed by" wherever occurring

6—Amendment of section 8—Appointment of agent to consent to medical treatment

(1) Section 8(2)(a)—delete "Schedule 1" and substitute:

regulation

(2) Section 8(2)(b)—delete "or to the effect of the certificate in Schedule 1" and substitute:

prescribed by regulation or in a form to similar effect

7—Repeal of Schedules 1 and 2

Schedules 1 and 2—delete Schedules 1 and 2

 


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