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VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2017 (NO. 61 OF 2017) - SECT 81

No liability for registered health practitioner or ambulance paramedic present after person administered voluntary assisted dying substance

    (1)     A registered health practitioner or an ambulance paramedic who, in good faith, does not administer life saving or life sustaining medical treatment to a person who has not requested it, and believes on reasonable grounds that the person is dying after being administered or self-administering a voluntary assisted dying substance in accordance with this Act, is not, in respect of that omission to act—

        (a)     guilty of an offence; or

        (b)     liable for unprofessional conduct or professional misconduct; or

        (c)     liable in any civil proceeding; or

        (d)     liable for contravention of any code of conduct.

    (2)     This section does not prevent a registered health practitioner or an ambulance paramedic from providing medical treatment for the purpose of ensuring the person's comfort.

    (3)     In this section—

"ambulance paramedic" means a person employed or engaged by an ambulance service, within the meaning of the Ambulance Services Act 1986

        (a)     as an ambulance paramedic or intensive care paramedic; or

        (b)     in any capacity to provide medical or other assistance to patients in an emergency.



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