6BEligibility for appointment

6B Eligibility for appointment

6B Eligibility for appointment

(1) A person is not eligible to be appointed as an enduring guardian unless he or she is of or above the age of 18 years.

(2) A person is not eligible to be appointed as an enduring guardian if—

(a) the person is, in a professional or administrative capacity, directly or indirectly responsible for, or involved in, the provision of any of the following services for fee or reward to the person making the appointment—

(i) medical services (whether provided in a hospital, at home or otherwise),

(ii) accommodation,

(iii) any other services to support the person making the appointment in his or her activities of daily living, or

(b) the person is the spouse, parent, child, brother or sister of a person of the kind referred to in paragraph (a).

(3) However, if a person who is validly appointed as an enduring guardian becomes responsible for or involved in the provision for fee or reward of a service to the appointor of the kind referred to in subsection (2) (a), the appointment does not lapse.

s 6B: Ins 1997 No 49, Sch 1 [9]. Am 2002 No 89, Sch 1 [2] [3].