Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
32Role of support person
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32 Role of support person
(1) The role of a support person for the person making the appointment is—
(a) to support the person to make, communicate and give effect to the person's medical treatment decisions; and
(b) to represent the interests of the person in respect of the person's medical treatment, including when the person does not have decision-making capacity in relation to medical treatment decisions.
(2) A support person acting in the capacity of a support person does not have the power to make a person's medical treatment decisions.
Being a support person does not preclude a person from also being a medical treatment decision maker (see section 55).