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Mental Capacity Act 2005: information about the transitional provisions for existing advance decisions to refuse life-sustaining treatment

Information on Article 5 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2007. This relates to advance decisions to refuse life-sustaining treatment, which may have been valid under common law, but which will not comply with the new requirements in the Act that apply to life-sustaining treatment.

This information note has been withdrawn. Further guidance will be given here soon