Legislation

Section 1 – The principles

Introduction

This section is a lynchpin of the act. It establishes a set of five statutory principles for the operation of the act: (1) Assumption of capacity – “a person must be assumed to have capacity unless it is established that he lacks capacity”. The starting assumption must always be that an individual has the capacity […]

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