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GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 2000 - SECT 61

61 Purpose to achieve balance for health care

This chapter seeks to strike a balance between--

(a) ensuring an adult is not deprived of necessary health care only because the adult has impaired capacity for a health matter or special health matter; and
(b) ensuring health care given to the adult is only--
(i) health care that is necessary and appropriate to maintain or promote the adult's health or wellbeing; or
(ii) health care that is, in all the circumstances, in the adult's best interests.
Editor's note--
See also section 11 (Principles for adults with impaired capacity).

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