Clause 4 - Best interests
Mental Capacity Bill
Public Bill Committees, 21 October 2004, 9:30 am
Mr James Cran (Beverley & Holderness, Conservative)
I remind the Committee that with this we are discussing the following amendments: No. 138, in
clause 4, page 2, line 36, at end insert—
'(1A) Where the determination concerns or affects the person's personal welfare, he must consider the person's life and health as basic to that welfare.'.
No. 110, in
clause 4, page 3, line 5, at end insert—
'(aa) the person's life and health in so far as they could properly be the object of health care.'.