S-32.0001 - Act respecting end-of-life care

Section 29.6 Disposition versions

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29.6. The patient may designate in the advance request a trusted third person to whom they entrust the following responsibilities:

(1)  notify a health or social services professional who provides care to the patient due to their illness where the trusted third person believes

(a)  the patient is exhibiting the clinical manifestations related to their illness that are described in the request; or

(b)  the patient is experiencing enduring and unbearable physical or psychological suffering; and

(2)  when the patient has become incapable of giving consent to care, notify any health or social services professional who provides care to the patient due to their illness of the existence of the request, or remind such a professional of its existence.

The patient may also designate in the request a second trusted third person who, if the first trusted third person is deceased or is prevented from acting, in particular due to their incapacity, or refuses or neglects to do so, replaces that third person.

A trusted third person may not be a minor or a person of full age incapable of giving consent.

2023, c. 15, s. 20.