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C-81 - Public Curator Act

Section 1
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1. The Government shall appoint a person to act as Public Curator. It shall also appoint an Assistant Public Curator, where required and after consulting with the Public Curator.
The Public Curator’s mission is mainly to see that incapable persons are protected. The Public Curator shall exercise his functions in their interest and in such a manner as to respect their rights and safeguard their autonomy, taking into account their wishes and preferences. He is also responsible for recognizing assistants to persons of full age and for seeing to the protection of the patrimony of minors.
The Public Curator shall inform persons who are assisted or represented, persons designated to represent incapable persons of full age, tutors to minors and assistants to persons of full age of the rules concerning them. He shall raise public awareness of the issues relating to incapacity and shall inform the public about means for protecting incapable persons.
1989, c. 54, s. 1; 2020, c. 11, s. 116.
1. The Government shall appoint a person to act as Public Curator.
1989, c. 54, s. 1.
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