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In forceProtection of health provider
Chapter 5Health matters and special health matters
Part 4Other provisions about health care
77 Protection of health provider
(1)
To the extent a health provider giving health care to an adult complies with a purported exercise of power for a health matter or special health matter by a person who represented to the health provider that the person had the right to exercise the power, the health provider is taken to have the adult’s consent to the exercise of power.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply if the health provider knew, or could reasonably be expected to have known, the person did not have the right to exercise the power.
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