Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2024 (NO. 24 OF 2024) - SECT 131

    (1)     A health practitioner or ambulance service member is not civilly or criminally liable for not administering life sustaining treatment to an individual if the health practitioner or ambulance service member believes on reasonable grounds that the individual—

        (a)     is dying after self-administering or being administered with an approved substance in accordance with this Act; and

        (b)     has not requested the administration of life sustaining treatment.

    (2)     In this section:

"health practitioner" means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (ACT)

to practise a health profession, including a student.

Note     The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (ACT) Act 2010

, s 6 applies the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009

(Qld), schedule as if it were an ACT law called the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (ACT) .

"member", of the ambulance service—see the Emergencies Act 2004

, dictionary.