GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 110ZIA

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 110ZIA

110ZIA .         Urgent treatment after attempted suicide

        (1)         Subsection (2) applies if —

            (a)         a patient needs urgent treatment; and

            (b)         the patient is unable to make reasonable judgments in respect of the treatment; and

            (c)         the health professional who proposes to provide the treatment reasonably suspects that the patient has attempted to commit suicide and needs the treatment as a consequence.

        (2)         The health professional may provide the treatment to the patient despite —

            (a)         the patient having made an advance health directive containing a treatment decision that is inconsistent with providing the treatment; or

            (b)         the patient’s guardian or enduring guardian or the person responsible for the patient under section 110ZD having made such a treatment decision in relation to the patient.

        [Section 110ZIA inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 20 of 2023 s. 47.]