Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I led into that one, so I'm not sure I'm going to tell you anything that you might not be already be aware of. But let me have a crack. Where an individual cannot provide informed consent to restrictive practices, it's considered that the person who knows the person best be identified as someone to consent to the specialised care of their loved one. The amendments in schedule 9 create a pathway for the quality-of-care principles contained in subordinate legislation to establish a hierarchy of substitute decision-makers from a person's partner to family and friends with a close connection to for the person. It will also be possible for the person, where they have capacity, to nominate a person to take on the role of substitute decision-maker for restrictive practices in the event that they lose capacity. But I understand you have had a briefing, Senator Rice, so that's probably information that's for the chamber rather than for you.