Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2024 (NO. 24 OF 2024) - SECT 75

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     administers an approved substance to an individual; and

        (b)     is not authorised to administer the approved substance to the individual under section 66 (Administering approved substances—administering practitioner).

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 7 years.

    (2)     This section does not apply if the person administers a medicine to another person under the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008

.

Note     The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (2) (see Criminal Code

, s 58).

    (3)     In this section:

"medicine"—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008

, section 11 (1).