Legislation

Section 24 – Advance decisions to refuse treatment: General

Introduction

This section gives legal effect to a person’s decisions about treatment, taken before they lost capacity to consent to the treatment. It overrides section 5 of the Act, which generally authorises treatment without consent if it is reasonably considered to be in the incapacitated person’s best interests. The official explanatory notes to the act describe […]

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