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Powers of Attorney Act 2006
2A procedure involving termination of a principal’s pregnancy may be
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2 A procedure involving termination of a principal’s pregnancy may be
primarily to treat organic malfunction if the principal requires abdominal
surgery for injuries sustained in an accident.
Note Health care primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease is used in
the definitions of sterilisation and termination.
non-regenerative tissue—see the Transplantation and Anatomy
Act 1978, dictionary.
psychiatric surgery—see the Mental Health Act 2015, section 145.
sterilisation, of a principal—
(a) means health care of the principal that is intended, or reasonably
likely, to make the principal, or ensure the principal is,
permanently infertile; but
(b) does not include health care primarily to treat organic
malfunction or disease of the principal.
Examples of sterilisation if not primarily to treat organic malfunction or
disease
1 endometrial ablation
2 hysterectomy
3 tubal ligation
4 vasectomy
termination, of a principal’s pregnancy, does not include health care
primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease of the principal.
Division 4.3.2 Things attorneys can and cannot do under enduring powers of attorney
Division 4.3.2 Things attorneys can and cannot do
under enduring powers of attorney
38 Enduring powers of attorney do not generally give
authority to make gifts
An enduring power of attorney does not authorise the attorney to
make a gift of all or any of the principal’s property to anyone else
unless the power of attorney expressly authorises the making of the
gift.