Patient Right to Autonomy Act Article 9

To establish an advance decision, the declarant must fulfill the following requirements:1. A medical institution has provided consultation on advance care planning to the declarant and affixed its seal on his or her advance decision.2. The advance decision must be notarized by a notary public or witnessed by two or more persons with full disposing capacity.3. The advance decision must be registered in his or her National Health Insurance IC card.The declarant, at least one relative of first or second degree of affinity, and the health care agent shall participate in the advance care planning set forth in Subparagraph 1 of the preceding paragraph. Relatives who have obtained consent from the declarant may also participate. A first and second degree relative is not required to participate if all of the said relatives are deceased, missing, or have specific reasons for exemption.The medical institution providing advance care planning, as set out in Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1, may not affix its seal on the advance decision if there are sufficient facts showing that the declarant is mentally deficient or did not make the decision on a voluntary basis.The declarant’s health care agent, members of the responsible medical team and persons specified in all of the subparagraphs of Paragraph 2 of Article 10, may not serve as the witnesses as specified in subparagraph 2 of Paragraph 1.The qualifications of medical institution to provide advance care planning, the forming of the advance care planning team and qualifications of its members, and procedures, and other matters to be followed shall be stipulated by the central competent authority.