Victorian Numbered Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2017 (NO. 61 OF 2017) - SECT 124

After section 13(6) of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 insert —

    "(7)     If a registered medical practitioner obtains, has in the registered medical practitioner's possession, uses, supplies, sells or administers a voluntary assisted dying substance to a person who is the subject
of a voluntary assisted dying permit in accordance with the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 in the lawful practice of the registered medical practitioner's profession as a registered medical practitioner, the obtaining, possession, use, supply, selling or administration is, for the purposes of subsection (1)—

        (a)     taken to be the obtaining, possession, use, supply, selling or administration in the lawful practice of the practitioner's profession by the registered medical practitioner; and

        (b)     authorised by this Act.

    (8)     If a pharmacist obtains, has in the pharmacist's possession, sells or supplies a voluntary assisted dying substance to a person who is the subject of a voluntary assisted dying permit in accordance with the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 for use by the person in the lawful practice of the pharmacist's profession as a pharmacist, the obtaining, possession, sale or supply is, for the purposes of subsection (1)—

        (a)     taken to be the obtaining, possession, sale or supply in the lawful practice of the pharmacist's profession by the pharmacist; and

        (b)     authorised by this Act.".