Victorian Current Acts

MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 50

    (1)     Before a health practitioner administers medical treatment to a person who does not have decision‑making capacity to make the medical treatment decision, the health practitioner must make reasonable efforts in the circumstances to ascertain if the person has either or both of the following—

        (a)     an advance care directive;

        (b)     a medical treatment decision maker.

Note

Section 4(4)(a) provides that a person may have decision‑making capacity for some decisions but not for others.

    (2)     If a registered health practitioner contravenes subsection (1), that contravention is unprofessional conduct.