Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts If a health
professional —
(a)
commences or continues palliative care in relation to a patient; or
(b) does
not commence or discontinues any treatment of a patient,
in accordance with a
treatment decision that is —
(c) in
an advance health directive made by the patient; or
(d) made
by the patient’s guardian or enduring guardian or the person responsible
for the patient under section 110ZD,
the health
professional is taken for all purposes to have done so in accordance with a
valid treatment decision, even if an effect of doing so is to hasten the death
of the patient.
[Section 110ZL inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11.]
[Heading inserted: No. 20 of 2023 s. 50.]