(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.