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MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 (NO. 69 OF 2016) - SECT 73

Requirement to ascertain existence of advance care directives and medical treatment decision makers

    (1)     Before a medical research practitioner administers a medical research procedure to a person, the medical research 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.

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


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