Section 22Part 3 — ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES
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A registered practitioner who is providing, or is to provide, health care to a directive-maker and that directive-maker has a valid and operative directive shall —
comply with any provision of the directive wishing for the denial of particular health care or of any health care, including, for example, the following words in the directive —
"do not resuscitate"; or
its acronym "DNR";
not comply with any provision of the directive which —
is unlawful, including, euthanasia and assisted suicide;
would cause a registered practitioner to contravene a professional standard or code of conduct (however described);
would be a refusal of mental health treatment; or
is prohibited under this Act or Regulations; and
as far as is reasonably practicable —
seek to avoid any outcome or intervention that the directive-maker may have wished to avoid; and
endeavour to comply with the advance health care directive principles.
The registered practitioner shall, as far as is reasonably practicable, comply with other provisions of the directive relating to health care of the relevant type.