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MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 8

Health practitioner cannot be compelled to provide particular medical treatment or futile or non‑beneficial medical treatment

    (1)     Nothing in this Act authorises the making of either of the following that purports to compel a health practitioner to administer a particular form of medical treatment or medical research procedure to a person—

        (a)     a statement in an advance care directive;

        (b)     a decision by a medical treatment decision maker.

    (2)     Nothing in this Act requires a health practitioner to administer a futile or non-beneficial medical treatment or medical research procedure to a person.

S. 8A inserted by No. 61/2017 s. 140.


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