s 22 Section 20 powers: personal welfare
22.—(1) The powers under section 20 as respects P’s personal welfare include —(a) deciding where P is to live; (b) deciding what contact (if any) P is to have with any specified person; (c) making an order prohibiting a named person from having contact with P; (d) subject to subsection (3), giving or refusing consent to the carrying out or continuation of a treatment (including the conduct of a clinical trial) by a person providing health care for P; (e) giving, refusing or revoking of appropriate consent involving P under the Human Biomedical Research Act 2015; and (f) giving a direction that a person responsible for P’s health care allow a different person to take over that responsibility.[29/2015] (2) Subsection (1) —(a) is subject to section 25 (restrictions on deputies); and (b) does not affect any other order or decision which may be made by the court or deputy under any other written law. (3) Nothing in subsection (1)(d) affects the operation of the Advance Medical Directive Act 1996.