

On 24/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 24/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 24/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 20/12/1997.

19.
—(1) A medical practitioner shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or discipline for professional misconduct for a decision made by him in good faith and without negligence as to whether —
(a)
a patient is, or is not, suffering from a terminal illness;
(b)
a patient has revoked, or intended to revoke, a directive;
(c)
a patient was, or was not, at the time of making a directive, capable of understanding the nature and consequences of the directive; or
(d)
a directive was valid.
(2) A person acting under the instructions of a medical practitioner shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or discipline for professional misconduct for giving effect to a directive in the absence of knowledge of revocation or intended revocation of the directive.






