(755 ILCS 43/55)
Sec. 55.
Declaration protects physician or provider from legal action.
A
physician who, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, determines that the
principal is capable or incapable of revoking a declaration or a physician or
provider who administers or does not administer mental health treatment
according to and in good faith reliance upon the decision or direction of the
attorney-in-fact or the validity of a declaration is not subject to criminal
prosecution, civil liability, or professional disciplinary action resulting
from a subsequent finding of a declaration's invalidity.
(Source: P.A. 89-439, eff. 6-1-96.)
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