This Act applies to Prince Edward Island. The table of contents is listed below to
provide an overview of what the Act contains. The URL is provided so
you can view the entire Act if you wish.
Consent to Treatment and Health Care Directives Act, R.S.P.E.I. 1988, c. C-17.2
Table of
Contents
- Definitions
- Subject to other Acts
- Restraint, confinement
- Presumption of capacity
- Revocation
- Consent rights
- No treatment without consent
- Elements of consent
- Informed consent
- Waiver
- Manner of communication
- Express or implied
- Additional or alternative
treatment
- Included consent
- Capacity with respect to
treatment
- Assistance in determining
capacity
- Capacity depends on
treatment
- Capacity depends on time
- Return of capacity
- Request for opinion of
psychiatrist
- Confirmation
- Determination of capacity
- Consent on incapable patient’s
behalf
- Inquiry
- Qualifications of consenter
- Parent under sixteen
- Ranking
- Decision-maker of last
resort
- Meaning of “available
- Excluded metters
- Principles
- Best interests
- Information
- Admission to hospital
- Emergency treatment despite
refusal
- Emergency treatment without
consent
- Apparently valid refusal
- Apparently valid consent
- Emergency treatment
- Substitute decision maker
- Capacity of maker
- Content of directive
- Writing required
- Execution
- Form of directive
- Agreement of proxy
- Coming into effect of
directive
- Inquiry
- Effect of decision by maker
- Effect of decision by proxy
- Revocation
- Effect of divorce
- No delegation
- More than one proxy
- Joint proxies
- Review of misconduct
- Investigation
- Application to court
- Proxy decision supersedes
that of court and guardian
- Medication for pain
- Protection from liability re
treatment
- Presumption of validity
- Protection from liability re
treatment
- Presumption of validity
- Protection from liability
for proxy
- Gift to witness, proxy or
person signing for maker
- Registration
- No presumption
- Effect of extra-provincial
directives
- Formal requirements
- Certification by lawyer
- Where impractical to
determine if requirements met
- Offence and penalty
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