(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

Subject to Section 3.5 and Section 9(l), a declaration under this Act becomes operative when all of the following conditions have been met:

1. (1) it has been validly executed;
2. (2) it has not been revoked in accordance with Section 5;
3. (3) the patient is unable to give directions regarding the use of life-sustaining or death delaying procedures; and

4. (4) the patient is a qualified patient.

   An operative and unrevoked living will declaration continues in effect until revoked in accordance with this Act.

(Source: P.A. 104-378, eff. 1-1-26.)