Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
103Enduring powers of attorney with power to make medical treatment decisions and enduring powers of guardianship
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103 Enduring powers of attorney with power to make medical treatment decisions and enduring powers of guardianship
(1) An attorney under an enduring power of attorney who continues, under section 155 of the Powers of Attorney Act 2014, to have the power to make medical treatment decisions on behalf of a person is taken to be the person's appointed medical treatment decision maker and may make medical treatment decisions to the extent that the enduring power of attorney provides.
(2) A guardian under an enduring power of guardianship saved by section 143 of the Powers of Attorney Act 2014 who, immediately before the commencement of this subsection, has the power to make medical treatment decisions on behalf of a person is taken to be the person's appointed medical treatment decision maker and may make medical treatment decisions to the extent that the enduring power of guardianship provides.