Urgent treatment after attempted suicide
110ZIA Urgent treatment after attempted suicide
Subsection (2) applies if —
a patient needs urgent treatment; and
the patient is unable to make reasonable judgments in respect of the treatment; and
the health professional who proposes to provide the treatment reasonably suspects that the patient has attempted to commit suicide and needs the treatment as a consequence.
The health professional may provide the treatment to the patient despite —
the patient having made an advance health directive containing a treatment decision that is inconsistent with providing the treatment; or
the patient’s guardian or enduring guardian or the person responsible for the patient under section 110ZD having made such a treatment decision in relation to the patient.
[Section 110ZIA inserted: No. 25 of 2008 s. 11.]
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