56Record keeping requirements

56 Record keeping requirements

(1) Before, or as soon as practicable after, administering medical treatment in accordance with this Part to a person who does not have decision-making capacity for that medical treatment, a health practitioner must record in writing in the person's clinical records—

(a) that the practitioner was satisfied that the person did not have decision-making capacity; and

(b) the reason or reasons for being so satisfied.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a health practitioner who forms a belief under section 51 or 59(b) must record this belief in writing in the clinical records of the person to whom medical treatment is being administered.

(3) A health practitioner who administers routine treatment to a person under section 63(1)(a) must set out in the person's clinical records details of—

(a) the practitioner's attempts to locate an advance care directive and a medical treatment decision maker; and

(b) the exact nature of the routine treatment and the reason for the decision to administer the routine treatment.

Division 2—Medical treatment decision‑making process