Only a person of full age who is an insured person within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act or is considered an insured person, who is capable of giving consent to care and who has been diagnosed with a serious and incurable illness leading to incapacity to give consent to care may make an advance request for medical aid in dying. Certain persons detained in Québec or residing in Québec and in active service in the Canadian Armed Forces are considered insured persons when the cost of their insured health services is covered otherwise than under the Health Insurance Act. A mental disorder other than a neurocognitive disorder cannot be the illness for which an advance request is made. The request must be made freely and in an informed manner and does not, on its own, guarantee that medical aid in dying will be administered.