Section 20Part 3 — ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES
Revocation by Ethics Committee because of revocation wish
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If a hospital's Ethics Committee is notified of a revocation wish, the Ethics Committee may revoke the relevant directive if the Ethics Committee is satisfied that —
when the wish was expressed, the directive-maker understood the nature and consequences of revoking the directive;
the revocation genuinely reflected the directive-maker's wishes at the time; and
the revocation is appropriate in the circumstances.
Where a directive expressly provides that it cannot be revoked because of a change in the directive-maker's wishes, the Ethics Committee may only revoke the directive if the Ethics Committee is satisfied that the directive-maker's state of mind at the time the revocation wish was made, was a conscious wish to override that provision.