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RIGHTS OF THE TERMINALLY ILL ACT 1995 - SECT 13

Certification as to death

    (1)     A medical practitioner who, under this Act, assists a patient to end the patient's life shall be taken, for the purposes of section 34 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 , to have been responsible for the patient's medical care immediately before death.

    (2)     A death as the result of assistance given under this Act shall not, for that reason only, be taken to be unexpected, unnatural or violent for the purposes of the definition of reportable death in the application of Part 4 of the Coroners Act 1993 , or be a reportable death by reason only of having occurred during an anaesthetic.



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