Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2024 (NO. 24 OF 2024) - SECT 80

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     the individual dies of any cause; and

        (b)     there is a practitioner administration decision in effect when the individual dies; and

        (c)     the individual's administering practitioner is not—

              (i)     the individual's coordinating practitioner; or

              (ii)     required to give the board an administration certificate under section 81.

    (2)     Within 4 business days after the day the administering practitioner becomes aware of the individual's death, the administering practitioner must—

        (a)     give written notice of the death to—

              (i)     the board; and

              (ii)     the director-general; and

        (b)     if the administering practitioner is not the individual's coordinating practitioner—tell the coordinating practitioner about the death.

Maximum penalty (paragraph (a) (i)): 20 penalty units.

    (3)     An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.