A witness to a consent for treatment or action must meet certain requirements to be considered valid.
Requirements for witnesses:
(1) All witnesses must be competent adults.
(2) At least one of the witnesses must not be:
(2a) a person designated by the declarant to make a treatment decision.
(2b) a person related to the declarant by blood or marriage.
(2c) a person entitled to a part of the declarant's estate after the declarant's death.
(2d) a person who has a claim against any part of the declarant's estate after the declarant's death.
(2e) the attending physician or an employee of the attending physician.
(2f) an employee of a health care facility in which the declarant is a patient if the employee is providing direct patient care to the declarant, or an officer, director, partner or business office employee of the health care facility or any parent organization.
where:
• I interpret the listing of exclusions to mean that at least one witness must not be any of person types listed.
