Singapore legislation

Regulation 6

of Advance Medical Directive Regulations 1997

Regulation 6

Certification of terminal illness

Subregulation 1

A certification by a medical practitioner that a person is suffering from a terminal illness and a request for a search of the register under section 9(1) of the Act must be in Form 5 set out in the Schedule.

Subregulation 2

The Registrar must inform the medical practitioner of the result of his or her search of the register under section 9(2) of the Act in Form 6 set out in the Schedule.

Subregulation 3

The medical practitioner responsible for the treatment of the patient must obtain the opinions of the 2 medical practitioners required under section 9(3) of the Act in Form 7 set out in the Schedule.

Subregulation 4

Where a committee of 3 specialists is appointed under section 9(5) of the Act, the Registrar must notify each specialist and obtain his or her opinion as to whether the patient is suffering from a terminal illness in Form 8 set out in the Schedule.

Subregulation 5

For the purposes of section 9(8) of the Act, the determination by a committee of 3 specialists as to whether a patient is suffering from a terminal illness must be recorded in Form 9 set out in the Schedule.

Subregulation 6

For the purposes of section 10(3) of the Act, the medical practitioner must certify whether the patient is pregnant, on page 3 of Form 7 set out in the Schedule or, where the committee of 3 specialists is unanimously in agreement that the patient is suffering from a terminal illness, on page 2 of Form 9 set out in the Schedule.