Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00843:reg:15hg
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00843
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 15HG
Character Range: 70954–72294

15HG  Consulting on behaviour support plans
 (1) In preparing, reviewing or revising a behaviour support plan for a care recipient, an approved provider must consult the following:
 (a) the care recipient and any other person nominated by the care recipient (unless the care recipient lacks the capacity to be consulted);
 (b) if the care recipient lacks the capacity to be consulted—a person or body who, under the law of the State or Territory in which the care recipient is provided with aged care, can make decisions about that care;
 (c) health practitioners with expertise relevant to the care recipient's behaviours of concern.
 (2) If the use of a restrictive practice in relation to the care recipient is assessed as necessary as mentioned in section 15FB or 15FC, the approved provider must also consult the following in preparing, reviewing or revising the behaviour support plan:
 (a) the approved health practitioner who made the assessment;
 (b) if the care recipient lacks the capacity to be consulted—the restrictive practices substitute decision‑maker for the restrictive practice.
 (3) In consulting under this section, the approved provider must provide the plan or revised plan, and any associated information, in an appropriately accessible format.

Division 6—Giving of informed consent by certain persons and bodies