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MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 32 Role of support person

MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 32

Role of support person

    (1)     The role of a support person for the person making the appointment is—

        (a)     to support the person to make, communicate and give effect to the person's medical treatment decisions; and

        (b)     to represent the interests of the person in respect of the person's medical treatment, including when the person does not have decision-making capacity in relation to medical treatment decisions.

    (2)     A support person acting in the capacity of a support person does not have the power to make a person's medical treatment decisions.

Note

Being a support person does not preclude a person from also being a medical treatment decision maker (see section 55).