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Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
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66 Orders in relation to medical treatment decisions
(1) On application under section 65, or on its own motion in any hearing before it, VCAT may make an order about the authority of a person to make a medical treatment decision on behalf of a person.
(2) VCAT may make an order—
(a) limiting the authority of the person to make a medical treatment decision on behalf of a person; or
(b) declaring that the person is not the medical treatment decision maker of a person.
(3) If VCAT makes an order under subsection (2), VCAT may make an order affirming or setting aside the medical treatment decision.