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Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
73Requirement to ascertain existence of advance care directives and medical treatment decision makers
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73 Requirement to ascertain existence of advance care directives and medical treatment decision makers
(1) Before a medical research practitioner administers a medical research procedure to a person, the medical research practitioner must make reasonable efforts in the circumstances to ascertain if the person has either or both of the following—
(b) a medical treatment decision maker.
(2) If a medical research practitioner contravenes subsection (1), that contravention is unprofessional conduct.