Western Australian Current Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2019 - SECT 109

109 .         Application of Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 Part 7

        (1)         The provisions of the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 Part 7 Divisions 1 to 5 (the applied provisions ) apply, for the purposes of the enforcement of this Act, with the modifications set out in subsections (2) to (7) and any other necessary modifications.

        (2)         References in the applied provisions to “this Act” are to be read as references to this Act.

        (3)         References in the applied provisions to “the CEO” are to be read as references to the CEO as defined in section 5 of this Act.

        (4)         Section 94 is to be read as if “or the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 ” were inserted after “the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 ”.

        (5)         Section 95(1) is to be read as if section 95(1)(c) were deleted.

        (6)         Section 101 is to be read as if section 101(1)(a) and (2) were deleted.

        (7)         Section 103 is to be read as if section 103(2) and (3) were replaced by the following provision —

        (2)         An investigator who enters a place under section 102(1) is entitled under this section to seize any patient records or data relating to a patient.

        (8)         Any definition in the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 of a term used in the applied provisions also applies for the purposes of the application of those provisions under subsection (1).