Section 18Part 3 — ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES
Temporary order
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A registered practitioner or any other person shall, if —
a directive is operative and the directive-maker is receiving health care at or from a hospital; and
that registered practitioner or person becomes aware that the directive-maker expressed a wish to revoke the directive at any time while the directive-maker was or is mentally competent,
notify the Ethics Committee about the wish to revoke.
The Ethics Committee may, on being notified, make any temporary order it thinks fit until it has an opportunity to decide the matter under section 20, including, for example, that no registered practitioner can act on the directive until the decision has been made.
The temporary order expires on the making of the decision.
Cross References
- Section 20 of Unknown
decision on revocation by Ethics Committee