Aged Care Act 2024

A supporter of an individual has:

the duties set out in:

subsection (2); and

section 31 (duty to inform of matters affecting ability or capacity to act as supporter); and

the duty to act honestly, diligently and in good faith in discharging the supporter’s other duties; and

the duty to avoid or manage any conflict of interest in relation to the supporter and the individual, and to inform the System Governor of any such conflict as it arises; and

any duty prescribed by the rules.

If the supporter is doing a thing under section 27 to support the individual to do a thing under, or for the purposes of, this Act, it is a duty of the supporter to:

act in a manner that promotes the will, preferences and personal, cultural and social wellbeing of the individual; and

act honestly, diligently and in good faith; and

support the individual only to the extent necessary for the individual to do the thing, applying the supporter’s best endeavours to maintain the ability of the individual to make the individual’s own decisions.