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No. 83 of 2013

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 would replace the all-or-nothing approach to mental capacity with a system that assesses a person’s ability to make particular decisions at particular times. It would support people to make their own choices through trusted assistants or joint decision-makers, while allowing courts to appoint representatives where necessary, modernise enduring powers of attorney, replace wardship, and create a Public Guardian to oversee arrangements and protect against abuse.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the reform of the law relating to persons who require or may require assistance in exercising their decision-making capacity, whether immediately or in the future; to provide for the appointment by such persons of other persons to assist them in decision-making or (subject to the approval of the Circuit Court) to make decisions jointly with such persons; to provide for the making of applications to the Circuit Court or High Court in respect of such persons, including seeking the approval by the Circuit Court of co-decision-making agreements or the appointment by the Circuit Court of decision-making representatives for such persons; to enable, in specified circumstances, informal decision-making to be done in respect of such persons by other persons who are not decision-making assistants, co-decision-makers, decision-making representatives or attorneys for such persons; to provide for the appointment and functions of the Public Guardian in respect of persons who require or may shortly require assistance in exercising their decision-making capacity; to provide for the amendment of the law relating to enduring powers of attorney; to provide for the ratification by the State of the Convention on the International Protection of Adults; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Justice and Equality Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Order for Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Dáil

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