Advance Medical Directive Regulations 1997

No. S 218

Advance Medical Directive Act 1996

(Chapter 4A)

Advance Medical Directive Regulations 1997

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Advance Medical Directive Act 1996, the Minister for Health hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Advance Medical Directive Regulations 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1997.

Advance medical directive

2. For the purposes of section 3 of the Act, an advance medical directive (referred to in these Regulations as a directive) shall be in Form 1 set out in the Schedule.

Acknowledgment of registration

3. For the purposes of section 5 of the Act, an acknowledgment of registration of a directive shall be in Form 2 set out in the Schedule.

Revocation of directive

4. A written revocation of a directive and a notice of revocation (whether the revocation was in writing or by any other way of communication) under section 7 of the Act may be in Form 3 set out in the Schedule.

Acknowledgment of notice of revocation

5. For the purposes of section 7(5) of the Act, an acknowledgement of receipt of a notice of revocation shall be in Form 4 set out in the Schedule.

Certification of terminal illness

6.—(1) A certification by a medical practitioner that a person is suffering from a terminal illness and a request for a search of the register under section 9(1) of the Act shall be in Form 5 set out in the Schedule.

(2) The Registrar shall inform the medical practitioner of the result of his search of the register under section 9(2) of the Act in Form 6 set out in the Schedule.

(3) The medical practitioner responsible for the treatment of the patient shall obtain the opinions of the 2 medical practitioners required under section 9(3) of the Act in Form 7 set out in the Schedule.

(4) Where a committee of 3 specialists is appointed under section 9(5) of the Act, the Registrar shall notify each specialist and obtain his opinion as to whether the patient is suffering from a terminal illness in Form 8 set out in the Schedule.

(5) For the purposes of section 9(8) of the Act, the determination by a committee of 3 specialists as to whether a patient is suffering from a terminal illness shall be recorded in Form 9 set out in the Schedule.

(6) For the purposes of section 10(3) of the Act, the medical practitioner shall certify whether the patient is pregnant, on page 3 of Form 7 set out in the Schedule or, where the committee of 3 specialists is unanimously in agreement that the patient is suffering from a terminal illness, on page 2 of Form 9 set out in the Schedule.

Conscientious objector

7.—(1) For the purposes of section 10(1) of the Act, a medical practitioner or any person who acts under the instructions of a medical practitioner who objects to acting on a directive shall register his objection in Part 1 of Form 10 set out in the Schedule.

(2) Revocation of an objection under section 10(1) of the Act shall be notified to the Registrar by retrieving the form on which the objection was registered from the Registry and completing Part 2 of the form at the Registry.

Made this 5th day of April 1997.

KOH YONG GUAN

Ministry of Health,
Permanent Secretary,
Singapore

[MH(CF)78:68/2; AG/LEG/SL/4A/95 Vol. 2]

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