Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022

Amendment of section 22 of Principal Act

20. Section 22(7) of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (7), by the substitution of “For the purposes of subsection (6), a document” for “A document”, and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7):

“(8) Once the Director has registered or has refused to register under this section a co-decision-making agreement, the applicants concerned shall, as soon as practicable, give notice to the persons referred to in section 21(3) (other than those to whom subsections (3A) and (3B) of that section relate) of that registration or refusal, as the case may be, in the form specified under section 31A.”.