Access officer
The role of the Mental Health Commission’s Access Officer is to support each person who requires assistance when engaging with the Mental Health Commission and with the Decision Support Service.
Appointer
An appointer is a person who creates one of the following decision support arrangements:
- An appointer who creates a co-decision-making agreement appoints a co-decision-maker to make certain decisions with them jointly.
- An appointer who creates a decision-making assistance agreement appoints a decision-making assistant to support them to access information and assist them to make certain decisions.
Decision support arrangement
A decision support arrangement is an umbrella term for the five formal decision support arrangements that are available under the Act. Two of these are for the purposes of advance planning:
- advance healthcare directive
- enduring power of attorney. and the remaining three are based on the level of support that a person requires to make a specific decision at a specific time
- decision-making assistance agreement
- co-decision-making agreement
- decision-making representation order
Decision Supporter
A decision supporter is an umbrella term used to describe a person with legal authority specified in a decision support arrangement made under the Act to support a relevant person to make their own decisions or to make the decisions on their behalf:
- a designated healthcare representative appointed under an advance healthcare directive
- an attorney appointed under an enduring power of attorney
- a decision-making assistant appointed under a decision-making assistance agreement
- a co-decision-maker appointed under a co-decision-making agreement;
- decision-making representative appointed under a decision-making representation order
Donor
A donor is a person who creates an enduring power of attorney and who appoints an attorney to make decisions on their behalf if and when they (the donor) no longer have the capacity to make those decisions.
MyDSS
MyDSS is the online portal that gives access to DSS services. This includes creating and submitting a decision support arrangement, notifying an enduring power of attorney and submitting a decision-making representative or attorney report.
Person
In this policy ‘person’ refers to any person using MyDSS to create, submit or notify an arrangement or report.
Resources
You can download the full document at the link Accessibility Policy.
You can download the easy-read document at the link Accessibility Policy easy read
You can download the procedure for emergency EPAs at the link Procedure for processing expedited enduring power of attorney applications or applications that are not on a specified form