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.