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CurrentIdentifying representatives of patients, &c.
Chapter 1Preliminary
Part 2Interpretation
10 Identifying representatives of patients, &c.
Where this Act requires a notice or other document to be given to a representative or support person of a patient, it means that the document is to be given to someone who is, to the knowledge of the person who has to comply with the requirement, such a representative or support person.
For the purposes of subsection (1), the requisite standard of knowledge is knowledge that is already to hand or readily discoverable on reasonable inquiry, not knowledge that might only be discoverable after arduous or prolonged inquiry.
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