(1) This section
applies in relation to a requirement under this Act to provide a
patient’s nominated person with information referred to in
section 266(1)(a) or (c) or involve a patient’s nominated person in a
matter referred to in section 266(1)(b).
(2) Without limiting a
requirement referred to in subsection (1), the requirement is taken to have
been complied with if the person responsible for ensuring the requirement is
complied with ensures that reasonable efforts to provide the nominated person
with the information or involve the nominated person in the matter continue to
be made until the first of these things occurs —
(a) the
nominated person is provided with the information or involved in the matter;
(b) it
is reasonable for the person responsible to conclude that the nominated person
cannot be provided with the information or involved in the matter.
(3) The person
responsible must ensure that one of the following is filed —
(a) a
record of when and how the nominated person was provided with the information
or involved in the matter;
(b) if
the nominated person could not be provided with the information or involved in
the matter — a record of the efforts made to do so.