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.
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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
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