Section 6Part 2 — PRINCIPLES OF ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES
Paramount principle: registered practitioners decide best interest
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The paramount principle shall be that questions of what is in a person's best interest and what health care that person receives are ultimately up to that person's registered practitioner or practitioners to decide, except under the following —
the denial of health care, as expressed in an operative directive;
a proxy decision to deny health care; and
an order under this Act that health care is to be denied or any type of other order that has the same effect.