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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 (NO. 26 OF 2014) - SECT 27

Nominated person may decline to act as nominated person at any time

    (1)     A person nominated to be a nominated person under section 24 may decline at any time to continue being a nominated person.

    (2)     A nominated person who declines to continue being a nominated person must—

        (a)     take reasonable steps to inform the person who made the nomination that he or she has declined to continue being a nominated person; and

        (b)     if the person who made the nomination is a patient, inform the authorised psychiatrist that he or she has declined to continue being a nominated person.

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