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<ref name="SDA">Substitute Decisions Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 30, <https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/92s30#BK42>, retrieved 2024-01-31</ref> | <ref name="SDA">Substitute Decisions Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 30, <https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/92s30#BK42>, retrieved 2024-01-31</ref> | ||
==Health Care Consent Act, 1996<ref name="HCCA"/>== | |||
2 (1) In this Act, | |||
::... | |||
::“personal assistance service” means assistance with or supervision of hygiene, washing, dressing, grooming, eating, drinking, elimination, ambulation, positioning or any other routine activity of living, and includes a group of personal assistance services or a plan setting out personal assistance services to be provided to a person, but does not include anything prescribed by the regulations as not constituting a personal assistance service; (“service d’aide personnelle”) | |||
::... | |||
::“recipient” means a person who is to be provided with one or more personal assistance services, | |||
:::(a) in a long-term care home as defined in the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021, | |||
:::(b) in a place prescribed by the regulations in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations, | |||
:::(c) under a program prescribed by the regulations in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations, or | |||
:::(d) by a provider prescribed by the regulations in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations; (“bénéficiaire”) | |||
::... | |||
::“care facility” means, | |||
:::(a) a long-term care home as defined in the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021, or | |||
:::(b) a facility prescribed by the regulations as a care facility; (“établissement de soins”) | |||
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4 (1) A person is capable with respect to a treatment, admission to a care facility or a personal assistance service if the person is able to understand the information that is relevant to making a decision about the treatment, admission or personal assistance service, as the case may be, and able to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of a decision or lack of decision. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 4 (1). | |||
:(2) A person is presumed to be capable with respect to treatment, admission to a care facility and personal assistance services. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 4 (2). | |||
:(3) A person is entitled to rely on the presumption of capacity with respect to another person unless he or she has reasonable grounds to believe that the other person is incapable with respect to the treatment, the admission or the personal assistance service, as the case may be. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 4 (3). | |||
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9 In this Part, | |||
::“substitute decision-maker” means a person who is authorized under section 20 to give or refuse consent to a treatment on behalf of a person who is incapable with respect to the treatment. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 9. | |||
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20 (1) <b><u>If a person is incapable with respect to a treatment, consent may be given or refused on his or her behalf by a person described in one of the following paragraphs</b></u>: | |||
::1. The incapable person’s guardian of the person, if the guardian has authority to give or refuse consent to the treatment. | |||
::2. The incapable person’s attorney for personal care, if the power of attorney confers authority to give or refuse consent to the treatment. | |||
::3. The incapable person’s representative appointed by the Board under section 33, if the representative has authority to give or refuse consent to the treatment. | |||
::4. The incapable person’s spouse or partner. | |||
::5. <b><u>A child or parent of the incapable person</b></u>, or a children’s aid society or other person who is lawfully entitled to give or refuse consent to the treatment in the place of the parent. This paragraph does not include a parent who has only a right of access. If a children’s aid society or other person is lawfully entitled to give or refuse consent to the treatment in the place of the parent, this paragraph does not include the parent. | |||
::6. A parent of the incapable person who has only a right of access. | |||
::7. A brother or sister of the incapable person. | |||
::<b><u>8. Any other relative of the incapable person.</b></u> 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (1); 2016, c. 23, s. 51 (1); 2021, c. 4, Sched. 11, s. 14 (1, 2). | |||
:(2) A person described in subsection (1) may give or refuse consent only if he or she, | |||
::(a) is capable with respect to the treatment; | |||
::(b) is at least 16 years old, unless he or she is the incapable person’s parent; | |||
::(c) is not prohibited by court order or separation agreement from having access to the incapable person or giving or refusing consent on his or her behalf; | |||
::(d) is available; and | |||
::(e) is willing to assume the responsibility of giving or refusing consent. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (2); 2021, c. 4, Sched. 11, s. 14 (3). | |||
:<b><u>(3) A person described in a paragraph of subsection (1) may give or refuse consent only if no person described in an earlier paragraph meets the requirements of subsection (2)</b></u>. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (3). | |||
:(4) Despite subsection (3), a person described in a paragraph of subsection (1) who is present or has otherwise been contacted may give or refuse consent if he or she believes that no other person described in an earlier paragraph or the same paragraph exists, or that although such a person exists, the person is not a person described in paragraph 1, 2 or 3 and would not object to him or her making the decision. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (4). | |||
:(5) If no person described in subsection (1) meets the requirements of subsection (2), the Public Guardian and Trustee shall make the decision to give or refuse consent. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (5). | |||
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21 (1) A person who gives or refuses consent to a treatment on an incapable person’s behalf shall do so in accordance with the following principles: | |||
::1. If the person knows of a wish applicable to the circumstances that the incapable person expressed while capable and after attaining 16 years of age, the person shall give or refuse consent in accordance with the wish. | |||
::2. If the person does not know of a wish applicable to the circumstances that the incapable person expressed while capable and after attaining 16 years of age, or if it is impossible to comply with the wish, the person shall act in the incapable person’s best interests. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 21 (1). | |||
:(2) In deciding what the incapable person’s best interests are, the person who gives or refuses consent on his or her behalf shall take into consideration, | |||
::(a) the values and beliefs that the person knows the incapable person held when capable and believes he or she would still act on if capable; | |||
::(b) any wishes expressed by the incapable person with respect to the treatment that are not required to be followed under paragraph 1 of subsection (1); and | |||
::(c) the following factors: | |||
:::1. Whether the treatment is likely to, | |||
::::i. improve the incapable person’s condition or well-being, | |||
::::ii. prevent the incapable person’s condition or well-being from deteriorating, or | |||
::::iii. reduce the extent to which, or the rate at which, the incapable person’s condition or well-being is likely to deteriorate. | |||
:::2. Whether the incapable person’s condition or well-being is likely to improve, remain the same or deteriorate without the treatment. | |||
:::3. Whether the benefit the incapable person is expected to obtain from the treatment outweighs the risk of harm to him or her. | |||
:::4. Whether a less restrictive or less intrusive treatment would be as beneficial as the treatment that is proposed. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 21 (2). | |||
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33 (1) A person who is 16 years old or older and who is incapable with respect to a proposed treatment may apply to the Board for appointment of a representative to give or refuse consent on his or her behalf. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (1). | |||
:(2) A person who is 16 years old or older may apply to the Board to have himself or herself appointed as the representative of a person who is incapable with respect to a proposed treatment, to give or refuse consent on behalf of the incapable person. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (2). | |||
:(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if the incapable person has a guardian of the person who has authority to give or refuse consent to the proposed treatment, or an attorney for personal care under a power of attorney conferring that authority. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (3). | |||
:(4) The parties to the application are: | |||
::1. The incapable person. | |||
::2. The proposed representative named in the application. | |||
::3. Every person who is described in paragraph 4, 5, 6 or 7 of subsection 20 (1). | |||
::4. The health practitioner who proposed the treatment. | |||
::5. Any other person whom the Board specifies. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (4). | |||
:(5) In an appointment under this section, the Board may authorize the representative to give or refuse consent on the incapable person’s behalf, | |||
::(a) to the proposed treatment; | |||
::(b) to one or more treatments or kinds of treatment specified by the Board, whenever a health practitioner proposing that treatment or a treatment of that kind finds that the person is incapable with respect to it; or | |||
::(c) to treatment of any kind, whenever a health practitioner proposing a treatment finds that the person is incapable with respect to it. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (5). | |||
:(6) The Board may make an appointment under this section if it is satisfied that the following requirements are met: | |||
::1. The incapable person does not object to the appointment. | |||
::2. The representative consents to the appointment, is at least 16 years old and is capable with respect to the treatments or the kinds of treatment for which the appointment is made. | |||
::3. The appointment is in the incapable person’s best interests. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (6). | |||
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41 Section 20 applies, with necessary modifications, for the purpose of determining who is authorized to give or refuse consent to admission to a care facility on behalf of a person who is incapable with respect to the admission. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 41. | |||
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56 In this Part, | |||
::“substitute decision-maker” means a person who is authorized under section 58 to make a decision concerning a personal assistance service on behalf of a recipient who is incapable with respect to the service. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 56. | |||
57 (1) If a recipient is found by an evaluator to be <b>incapable with respect to a <u>personal assistance service</u>, a decision concerning the service may be made on the recipient’s behalf by his or her substitute decision-maker in accordance with this Act</b>. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 57 (1). | |||
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58 For the purpose of determining <b>who is authorized to make a decision concerning a <u>personal assistance service</u> on behalf of a recipient who is incapable with respect to the service</b>, | |||
::(a) <b><u>section 20, except subsections 20 (5) and (6), applies with necessary modifications;</b></u> | |||
::(b) if no person described in subsection 20 (1) meets the requirements of subsection 20 (2), the Public Guardian and Trustee may make the decision concerning the personal assistance service; and | |||
::(c) if two or more persons who are described in the same paragraph of subsection 20 (1) and who meet the requirements of subsection 20 (2) disagree about the decision to be made concerning the personal assistance service, and if their claims rank ahead of all others, the Public Guardian and Trustee may make the decision in their stead. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 58. | |||
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60 (1) Before making a decision on an incapable recipient’s behalf concerning a personal assistance service, <b><u>a substitute decision-maker is entitled to receive all the information required in order to make the decision</b></u>. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 60. | |||
:(2) Subsection (1) prevails despite anything to the contrary in the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004. 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 84 (10). | |||
<ref name="HCCA">Health Care Consent Act, 1996, S.O. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, <https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/96h02>, retrieved 2024-10-04</ref> | |||
==References== |
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Last Updated: | 2025/05/02 |
Trespass to Property Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. T.21
1 (1) In this Act,
- “occupier” includes,
- (a) a person who is in physical possession of premises, or
- (b) a person who has responsibility for and control over the condition of premises or the activities there carried on, or control over persons allowed to enter the premises, even if there is more than one occupier of the same premises; (“occupant”)
2 (1) Every person who is not acting under a right or authority conferred by law and who,
- (a) without the express permission of the occupier, the proof of which rests on the defendant,
- (i) enters on premises when entry is prohibited under this Act, or
- (ii) engages in an activity on premises when the activity is prohibited under this Act; or
- (b) does not leave the premises immediately after he or she is directed to do so by the occupier of the premises or a person authorized by the occupier,
is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not more than $10,000. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.21, s. 2 (1); 2016, c. 8, Sched. 6, s. 1.
9 (1) A police officer, or the occupier of premises, or a person authorized by the occupier may arrest without warrant any person he or she believes on reasonable and probable grounds to be on the premises in contravention of section 2. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.21, s. 9 (1).
- (2) Where the person who makes an arrest under subsection (1) is not a police officer, he or she shall promptly call for the assistance of a police officer and give the person arrested into the custody of the police officer. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.21, s. 9 (2).
- (3) A police officer to whom the custody of a person is given under subsection (2) shall be deemed to have arrested the person for the purposes of the provisions of the Provincial Offences Act applying to his or her release or continued detention and bail. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.21, s. 9 (3).
Substitute Decisions Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 30[2]
6 A person is incapable of managing property if the person is not able to understand information that is relevant to making a decision in the management of his or her property, or is not able to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of a decision or lack of decision. 1992, c. 30, s. 6.
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7 (1) A power of attorney for property is a continuing power of attorney if,
- (a) it states that it is a continuing power of attorney; or
- (b) it expresses the intention that the authority given may be exercised during the grantor’s incapacity to manage property. 1996, c. 2, s. 4 (1).
- (2) The continuing power of attorney may authorize the person named as attorney to do on the grantor’s behalf anything in respect of property that the grantor could do if capable, except make a will. 1992, c. 30, s. 7 (2).
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31 (1) A guardian of property has power to do on the incapable person’s behalf anything in respect of property that the person could do if capable, except make a will. 1992, c. 30, s. 31 (1).
- (2) Repealed: 1996, c. 2, s. 19.
- (3) The guardian’s powers are subject to this Act and to any conditions imposed by the court. 1992, c. 30, s. 31 (3).
- ...
46 (1) A person may give a written power of attorney for personal care, authorizing the person or persons named as attorneys to make, on the grantor’s behalf, decisions concerning the grantor’s personal care. 1992, c. 30, s. 46 (1).
- ...
59 (1) The court may make an order for full guardianship of the person only if the court finds that the person is incapable in respect of all the functions referred to in section 45. 1992, c. 30, s. 59 (1).
- (2) Under an order for full guardianship, the guardian may,
- (a) exercise custodial power over the person under guardianship, determine his or her living arrangements and provide for his or her shelter and safety;
- (b) be the person’s litigation guardian, except in respect of litigation that relates to the person’s property or to the guardian’s status or powers;
- (c) settle claims and commence and settle proceedings on the person’s behalf, except claims and proceedings that relate to the person’s property or to the guardian’s status or powers;
- (d) have access to personal information, including health information and records, to which the person would be entitled to have access if capable, and consent to the release of that information to another person, except for the purposes of litigation that relates to the person’s property or to the guardian’s status or powers;
- (e) on behalf of the person, make any decision to which the Health Care Consent Act, 1996 applies;
- (e.1) make decisions about the person’s health care, nutrition and hygiene;
- (f) make decisions about the person’s employment, education, training, clothing and recreation and about any social services provided to the person; and
- (g) exercise the other powers and perform the other duties that are specified in the order. 1992, c. 30, s. 59 (2); 1996, c. 2, s. 37 (1); 2006, c. 19, Sched. B, s. 22 (7).
Health Care Consent Act, 1996[3]
2 (1) In this Act,
- ...
- “personal assistance service” means assistance with or supervision of hygiene, washing, dressing, grooming, eating, drinking, elimination, ambulation, positioning or any other routine activity of living, and includes a group of personal assistance services or a plan setting out personal assistance services to be provided to a person, but does not include anything prescribed by the regulations as not constituting a personal assistance service; (“service d’aide personnelle”)
- ...
- “recipient” means a person who is to be provided with one or more personal assistance services,
- (a) in a long-term care home as defined in the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021,
- (b) in a place prescribed by the regulations in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations,
- (c) under a program prescribed by the regulations in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations, or
- (d) by a provider prescribed by the regulations in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations; (“bénéficiaire”)
- ...
- “care facility” means,
- (a) a long-term care home as defined in the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021, or
- (b) a facility prescribed by the regulations as a care facility; (“établissement de soins”)
...
4 (1) A person is capable with respect to a treatment, admission to a care facility or a personal assistance service if the person is able to understand the information that is relevant to making a decision about the treatment, admission or personal assistance service, as the case may be, and able to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of a decision or lack of decision. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 4 (1).
- (2) A person is presumed to be capable with respect to treatment, admission to a care facility and personal assistance services. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 4 (2).
- (3) A person is entitled to rely on the presumption of capacity with respect to another person unless he or she has reasonable grounds to believe that the other person is incapable with respect to the treatment, the admission or the personal assistance service, as the case may be. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 4 (3).
...
9 In this Part,
- “substitute decision-maker” means a person who is authorized under section 20 to give or refuse consent to a treatment on behalf of a person who is incapable with respect to the treatment. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 9.
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20 (1) If a person is incapable with respect to a treatment, consent may be given or refused on his or her behalf by a person described in one of the following paragraphs:
- 1. The incapable person’s guardian of the person, if the guardian has authority to give or refuse consent to the treatment.
- 2. The incapable person’s attorney for personal care, if the power of attorney confers authority to give or refuse consent to the treatment.
- 3. The incapable person’s representative appointed by the Board under section 33, if the representative has authority to give or refuse consent to the treatment.
- 4. The incapable person’s spouse or partner.
- 5. A child or parent of the incapable person, or a children’s aid society or other person who is lawfully entitled to give or refuse consent to the treatment in the place of the parent. This paragraph does not include a parent who has only a right of access. If a children’s aid society or other person is lawfully entitled to give or refuse consent to the treatment in the place of the parent, this paragraph does not include the parent.
- 6. A parent of the incapable person who has only a right of access.
- 7. A brother or sister of the incapable person.
- 8. Any other relative of the incapable person. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (1); 2016, c. 23, s. 51 (1); 2021, c. 4, Sched. 11, s. 14 (1, 2).
- (2) A person described in subsection (1) may give or refuse consent only if he or she,
- (a) is capable with respect to the treatment;
- (b) is at least 16 years old, unless he or she is the incapable person’s parent;
- (c) is not prohibited by court order or separation agreement from having access to the incapable person or giving or refusing consent on his or her behalf;
- (d) is available; and
- (e) is willing to assume the responsibility of giving or refusing consent. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (2); 2021, c. 4, Sched. 11, s. 14 (3).
- (3) A person described in a paragraph of subsection (1) may give or refuse consent only if no person described in an earlier paragraph meets the requirements of subsection (2). 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (3).
- (4) Despite subsection (3), a person described in a paragraph of subsection (1) who is present or has otherwise been contacted may give or refuse consent if he or she believes that no other person described in an earlier paragraph or the same paragraph exists, or that although such a person exists, the person is not a person described in paragraph 1, 2 or 3 and would not object to him or her making the decision. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (4).
- (5) If no person described in subsection (1) meets the requirements of subsection (2), the Public Guardian and Trustee shall make the decision to give or refuse consent. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 20 (5).
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21 (1) A person who gives or refuses consent to a treatment on an incapable person’s behalf shall do so in accordance with the following principles:
- 1. If the person knows of a wish applicable to the circumstances that the incapable person expressed while capable and after attaining 16 years of age, the person shall give or refuse consent in accordance with the wish.
- 2. If the person does not know of a wish applicable to the circumstances that the incapable person expressed while capable and after attaining 16 years of age, or if it is impossible to comply with the wish, the person shall act in the incapable person’s best interests. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 21 (1).
- (2) In deciding what the incapable person’s best interests are, the person who gives or refuses consent on his or her behalf shall take into consideration,
- (a) the values and beliefs that the person knows the incapable person held when capable and believes he or she would still act on if capable;
- (b) any wishes expressed by the incapable person with respect to the treatment that are not required to be followed under paragraph 1 of subsection (1); and
- (c) the following factors:
- 1. Whether the treatment is likely to,
- i. improve the incapable person’s condition or well-being,
- ii. prevent the incapable person’s condition or well-being from deteriorating, or
- iii. reduce the extent to which, or the rate at which, the incapable person’s condition or well-being is likely to deteriorate.
- 2. Whether the incapable person’s condition or well-being is likely to improve, remain the same or deteriorate without the treatment.
- 3. Whether the benefit the incapable person is expected to obtain from the treatment outweighs the risk of harm to him or her.
- 4. Whether a less restrictive or less intrusive treatment would be as beneficial as the treatment that is proposed. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 21 (2).
- 1. Whether the treatment is likely to,
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33 (1) A person who is 16 years old or older and who is incapable with respect to a proposed treatment may apply to the Board for appointment of a representative to give or refuse consent on his or her behalf. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (1).
- (2) A person who is 16 years old or older may apply to the Board to have himself or herself appointed as the representative of a person who is incapable with respect to a proposed treatment, to give or refuse consent on behalf of the incapable person. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (2).
- (3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if the incapable person has a guardian of the person who has authority to give or refuse consent to the proposed treatment, or an attorney for personal care under a power of attorney conferring that authority. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (3).
- (4) The parties to the application are:
- 1. The incapable person.
- 2. The proposed representative named in the application.
- 3. Every person who is described in paragraph 4, 5, 6 or 7 of subsection 20 (1).
- 4. The health practitioner who proposed the treatment.
- 5. Any other person whom the Board specifies. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (4).
- (5) In an appointment under this section, the Board may authorize the representative to give or refuse consent on the incapable person’s behalf,
- (a) to the proposed treatment;
- (b) to one or more treatments or kinds of treatment specified by the Board, whenever a health practitioner proposing that treatment or a treatment of that kind finds that the person is incapable with respect to it; or
- (c) to treatment of any kind, whenever a health practitioner proposing a treatment finds that the person is incapable with respect to it. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (5).
- (6) The Board may make an appointment under this section if it is satisfied that the following requirements are met:
- 1. The incapable person does not object to the appointment.
- 2. The representative consents to the appointment, is at least 16 years old and is capable with respect to the treatments or the kinds of treatment for which the appointment is made.
- 3. The appointment is in the incapable person’s best interests. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 33 (6).
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41 Section 20 applies, with necessary modifications, for the purpose of determining who is authorized to give or refuse consent to admission to a care facility on behalf of a person who is incapable with respect to the admission. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 41.
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56 In this Part,
- “substitute decision-maker” means a person who is authorized under section 58 to make a decision concerning a personal assistance service on behalf of a recipient who is incapable with respect to the service. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 56.
57 (1) If a recipient is found by an evaluator to be incapable with respect to a personal assistance service, a decision concerning the service may be made on the recipient’s behalf by his or her substitute decision-maker in accordance with this Act. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 57 (1).
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58 For the purpose of determining who is authorized to make a decision concerning a personal assistance service on behalf of a recipient who is incapable with respect to the service,
- (a) section 20, except subsections 20 (5) and (6), applies with necessary modifications;
- (b) if no person described in subsection 20 (1) meets the requirements of subsection 20 (2), the Public Guardian and Trustee may make the decision concerning the personal assistance service; and
- (c) if two or more persons who are described in the same paragraph of subsection 20 (1) and who meet the requirements of subsection 20 (2) disagree about the decision to be made concerning the personal assistance service, and if their claims rank ahead of all others, the Public Guardian and Trustee may make the decision in their stead. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 58.
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60 (1) Before making a decision on an incapable recipient’s behalf concerning a personal assistance service, a substitute decision-maker is entitled to receive all the information required in order to make the decision. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, s. 60.
- (2) Subsection (1) prevails despite anything to the contrary in the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004. 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 84 (10).
References
- ↑ Trespass to Property Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. T.21, <https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90t21>, retrieved 2024-01-31
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Substitute Decisions Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 30, <https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/92s30#BK42>, retrieved 2024-01-31
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Health Care Consent Act, 1996, S.O. 1996, c. 2, Sched. A, <https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/96h02>, retrieved 2024-10-04