18Unlawful statements in advance care directives

18 Unlawful statements in advance care directives

(1) An advance care directive must not include any of the following statements—

(a) a statement that is unlawful or would require an unlawful act to be performed;

(b) a statement that would, if given effect, cause a health practitioner to contravene a professional standard or code of conduct (however described) applying to the profession of that health practitioner;

(c) a statement—

(i) of a prescribed kind; or

(ii) containing a prescribed instruction or prescribed kind of instruction.

(2) If a statement in an advance care directive contravenes subsection (1)—

(a) that statement is void and is severed from the directive; and

(b) if the remaining statements in the directive are capable of applying with the voided statement severed, the advance care directive has effect as if it were made without the severed statement, subject to this Part.