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S.I. No. 527/2018 - Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) Order 2018
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 14th December, 2018.
I, SIMON HARRIS, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by
section 1
(3) of the
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015
(No. 64 of 2015), and after consulting with the Minister for Justice and Equality, hereby order as follows:
1. This Order may be cited as the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) Order 2018.
(This Note is not part of the Statutory Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)
This Order provides for the commencement of the remainder of
section 91
of the
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015
, which outlines the formal process to be undertaken by the Director of the Decision Support Service regarding the preparation and publication of the code of practice pertaining to the advance healthcare directive provisions, including the requirement for the Director to obtain the consent of the Minister for Health in order to publish the code of practice.