776. Every application to obtain authorization from the court or a judge must, if it is with respect to care or the alienation of a body part, be served on the person concerned, if 14 years of age or over, and on the holder of parental authority, the tutor or curator, where applicable, or on the mandatary designated by a person of full age when he was capable of giving his consent.
An application concerning a person of full age who is incapable of giving his consent and who has no tutor, curator or mandatary must also be served on the Public Curator.
Except in an emergency, the application may not be presented to the court less than five days after it is served. No written appearance is required.
The application must be heard on the day it is presented, unless the court or the judge decides otherwise.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 776; 1973, c. 38, s. 88; 1992, c. 57, s. 367; 1998, c. 32, s. 3; 2002, c. 7, s. 109.