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BILL 92 -- 1999: ADULT GUARDIANSHIP STATUTES AMENDMENT ACT, 1999
30 Section 13 is amended by adding the following subsections:
(2.1) If an instrument executed by a representative under a representation agreement made under section 9 of this Act is to be effective for the purposes of the Land Title Act,
(b) the execution of the representation agreement by the adult must be witnessed or proved by the adult in the manner required for instruments by Part 5 of the Land Title Act.
SECTION 1: [Adult Guardianship Act, amends section 1]
(a) adjusts a section reference in the definition of "designated agency" to reflect the proposed amendments to section 61 of the Act;
(b) repeals and replaces the definition of "representation agreement" to remove any reference to an agreement or other document being registered under the Representation Agreement Act.
SECTION 2: [Adult Guardianship Act, amends Part 2 heading] repositions the headings of Part 2 and Division 1 to ensure that section 3 of the Act applies to the entire Act, rather than to Part 2 alone.
SECTION 3: [Adult Guardianship Act, enacts section 44.1] expands the definition of "guardian" to include, for the purposes of Part 3 of the Adult Guardianship Act, a committee appointed under the Patients Property Act. This amendment is necessary because the Patients Property Act will continue to apply after the abuse and neglect provisions of Part 3 of the Adult Guardianship Act come into force.
SECTION 4: [Adult Guardianship Act, amends section 61] allows the Public Trustee to limit the duties, powers and responsibilities of agencies designated for the purpose of Part 3 of the Act.
SECTION 5: [Court Rules Act, amends section 1 (2)] allows Rules of Court to be made for matters arising under the Adult Guardianship Act.
SECTION 6: [Supplement to the Court Rules Act, repeals section 1 (a)] repeals an amendment that was consequential to the repeal of the Patients Property Act. The amendment is no longer needed because the Patients Property Act will remain in force.
SECTION 7: [Estate Administration Act, adds section 112 (8.1)] is consequential to the Representation Agreement Act and to the Patients Property Act remaining in force.
SECTION 8: [Family Relations Act, adds section 91 (2.1 and (2.2)] allows designated agencies under the Adult Guardianship Act and certain representatives under the Representation Agreement Act to apply under the Family Relations Act for an order for support of an adult by his or her children. These provisions replace amendments to the Family Relations Act that have not been brought into force.
SECTION 9: [Supplement to the Family Relations Act, repeals section 7 (1) (b)] repeals amendments that are being replaced by the proposed amendments to section 91 of the Act.
SECTION 10: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends section 1] expands the definition of "guardian" to include certain committees of a patient under the Patients Property Act.
SECTION 11: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends section 14]
(a) removes the requirement that a health care provider comply with subsections (5) and (6) of the section if care is provided to an adult without the adult's consent, and
(b) removes a reference to "emergency" that is redundant in light of section 12 of the Act.
SECTION 12: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends section 16 (3)] clarifies that persons employed in the office of the Public Trustee can be authorized by the Public Trustee to act for the purposes of the section.
SECTION 13: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends section 19 (1) (ii)] is consequential to the amendment to section 16 (3) of the Act.
SECTION 14: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, re-enacts section 27] provides that the work of the Health Care and Care Facility Review Board may be performed through panels of the Board.
SECTION 15: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends section 28] allows a health care provider to request a review, provides that a prescribed advocacy organization can request a review in prescribed circumstances and repeals a provision consequential to the re-enactment of section 27 of the Act.
SECTION 16: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends sections 30 to 32] is consequential to the re-enactment of section 27 of the Act.
SECTION 17: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends section 31 (3)] is consequential to the re-enactment of section 27 of the Act.
SECTION 18: [Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amends section 34 (2)]
(a) authorizes the Lieutenant Governor in Council to prescribe the circumstances in which a prescribed advocacy organization can request a review;
(b) makes amendments consequential to the re-enactment of section 27 of the Act;
(c) is consequential to the re-enactment of section 27 of the Act.
SECTION 19: [Land Title Act, enacts section 47.1] provides that instruments executed by a representative in a real estate transaction are to be executed and witnessed in accordance with the requirements of the Land Title Act relating to instruments executed under a power of attorney.
SECTION 20: [Patients Property Act, amends section 1] adds a definition of "representation agreement" to provide a link between the Representation Agreement Act and the Patients Property Act.
SECTION 21: [Patients Property Act, re-enacts section 19] clarifies that once a person is declared incapable by court order and becomes a patient, every representation agreement made by the person is terminated, unless the court orders otherwise.
SECTION 22: [Patients Property Act, enacts sections 19.1 and 19.2] adds provisions specifying the effect of a person becoming a patient, other than by court order, on a power of attorney, on a representation agreement covering only part of the person's property and on a representation agreement covering all of the person's property.
SECTION 23: [Patients Property Act, repeals section 25, 26, 29 and 30 (2)] is consequential to the Public Guardian and Trustee Act.
SECTION 24: [Power of Attorney Act, repeals and replaces section 8 (2)] adds references to the termination of a power of attorney under the proposed sections 19 and 19.1 of the Patients Property Act.
SECTION 25: [Power of Attorney Act, enacts section 8.1] provides that a pre-existing enduring power of attorney made under section 8 of the Act is not affected by the repeal of that section.
SECTION 26: [Public Guardian and Trustee Act, amends section 1]
(a) includes in the definition of "guardian" a committee under the Patients Property Act;
(b) repeals and replaces the definition of "representation agreement" to remove the reference to the registration of the agreement.
SECTION 27: [Representation Agreement Act, amends section 7]
(a) along with the proposed amendment to section 41 of the Act, authorizes the making of regulations respecting the routine management of an adult's financial affairs under a standard representation agreement;
(b) removes the limitation that under a standard representation agreement a representative cannot be authorized to make investments, other than investments that under the Trustee Act a trustee is authorized to make;
(c) clarifies that a representative named in a standard agreement is not authorized to make a decision on the adult's behalf to refuse life supporting care and treatment.
SECTION 28: [Representation Agreement Act, amends section 9 (1)] allows an adult who makes an enhanced representation agreement to authorize a representative to invest generally without the adult having to specify in advance how the investments are to be made.
SECTION 29: [Representation Agreement Act, amends section 12]
(a) requires that a monitor be named if an adult makes a standard agreement with routine financial management provisions, and specifies the exceptions to this general rule;
(b) is consequential to the proposed provision requiring that a monitor be named.
SECTION 30: [Representation Agreement Act, adds section 13 (2.1) and (7)] provides that the execution and witnessing requirements of the Land Title Act apply to certain representation agreements. Also allows a representative to apply for a court order to cure a defect in the execution of a representation agreement.
SECTION 31: [Representation Agreement Act, amends section 15 (1)] removes a reference to a representation agreement being registered.
SECTION 32: [Representation Agreement Act, amends section 27 (1) (a)] clarifies that an adult has to be capable of making a representation agreement in order to be able to change or revoke a representation agreement.
SECTION 33: [Representation Agreement Act, adds section 28 (1) (d)] is consequential to the proposed section 19.1 (3) (b) of the Patients Property Act which provides for the cancellation of certain provisions of a representation agreement if the adult becomes a patient other than by court order and the Public Trustee considers it necessary or desirable to manage the patient's property.
SECTION 34: [Representation Agreement Act, adds section 29 (1) (h)] is consequential to the proposed section 19 of the Patients Property Act which provides for the cancellation of a representation agreement if the adult becomes a patient by court order.
SECTION 35: [Representation Agreement Act, amends section 30 (3)]
(a) allows the Public Trustee to apply for a court order to cure a defect in the execution of a representation agreement;
(b) allows the Public Trustee to recommend that someone else apply for a court order to cure a defect in the execution of a representation agreement;
(c) ensures that the Public Trustee has the requisite authority to recommend any other action considered necessary if an objection is filed to a representation agreement, to a change to that agreement or to a revocation of that agreement.
SECTION 36: [Representation Agreement Act, adds section 32 (4)] authorizes the Supreme Court to order that a representation agreement is not rendered invalid by a defect in the execution of the agreement.
SECTION 37: [Representation Agreement Act, re-enacts section 39] repeals a provision that permits enduring powers of attorney to be registered under the Act and then treated as representation agreements. The replacement section provides that pre-existing representation agreements are, in certain circumstances, valid.
SECTION 38: [Representation Agreement Act, amends section 42 (2)] expands the Lieutenant Governor in Council's authority to make regulations.