Singapore legislation
Section 7
Section 7
Acts in connection with care or treatment
(1)
If a person (“D”) does an act in connection with the care or treatment of another person (“P”), the act is one to which this section applies if —
before doing the act, D takes reasonable steps to establish whether P lacks capacity in relation to the matter in question; and
when doing the act, D reasonably believes —
that P lacks capacity in relation to the matter; and
that it will be in P’s best interests for the act to be done.
(2)
D does not incur any liability in relation to the act that D would not have incurred if P —
had had capacity to consent in relation to the matter; and
had consented to D’s doing the act.
(3)
Nothing in this section —
excludes a person’s civil liability for loss or damage, or the person’s criminal liability, resulting from the person’s negligence in doing the act;
affects the operation of the Advance Medical Directive Act 1996;
applies to the conduct of a clinical trial; or
applies to the conduct of human biomedical research within the meaning of the Human Biomedical Research Act 2015 or the removal or use of human tissue under that Act.