Victorian Numbered Acts

MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 (NO. 69 OF 2016) - SECT 8

    (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.

Part 2—Advance care directives