GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1993 - SECT 31A

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1993 - SECT 31A

31A—Guardian to give effect to advance care directive

        (1)         A person appointed as a guardian under this Part—

            (a)         must take reasonable steps to ascertain whether the protected person has given an advance care directive; and

            (b)         if the protected person has given an advance care directive—must, as far as may be reasonably practicable—

                  (i)         give effect to any provision in the advance care directive; and

                  (ii)         seek to avoid any outcome or intervention that the protected person would wish to be avoided (whether such wish is expressed or implied in the advance care directive).

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), a reference to an advance care directive includes an advance care directive that was revoked by the Tribunal under the Advance Care Directives Act 2013 in proceedings that gave rise to the making of an order under this Division.

        (3)         For the purposes of this section, a reference to a provision of an advance care directive includes a reference to a condition, instruction or direction of an advance care directive.