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The Advance Medical Directive Act 1996 (No. 16 of 1996).

Main Region

First Region

Singapore
Medical care and sickness benefit
1996-05-17
National
Law, Act

Second Region

Allows persons over the age of 21 to make an advance medical directive indicating their wish not to be subjected to extraordinary life-sustaining treatments in the event of a terminal illness. Provides for medical practitioners' duties in such cases and relieves physicians of liability if medical treatment is withheld from a patient in accordance with the Act. Assures confidentiality of advance medical directives and makes it an offence to require such directives for the purposes of insurance policies. The Act shall not be interpreted as an authorization of euthanasia or mercy killing.

Implementing Text region

Electronic region

    Electronic source title
    Singapore Statutes Online
    Author
    Advance Medical Directive Act (1997 Revised Edition)
    Publisher
    Attorney-General's Chambers and the Managing for Excellence Office, MOF
    Country
    Singapore

Serial region

    Serial title
    Government Gazette, Acts Supplement
    Date
    1997-01-17
    Number
    No. 1
    Page range
    pp. 1-15