Western Australian Current Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2019 - SECT 114

114 .         Protection for persons acting in accordance with Act

        (1)         This section applies if a person, in good faith and with reasonable care and skill, does a thing —

            (a)         in accordance with this Act; or

            (b)         believing on reasonable grounds that the thing is done in accordance with this Act.

        (2)         The person does not incur any civil liability, or any criminal liability under this Act, for doing the thing.

        (3)         The doing of the thing is not to be regarded as —

            (a)         a breach of professional ethics or standards or any principles of conduct applicable to the person’s employment; or

            (b)         professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct.

        (4)         In this section, a reference to the doing of a thing includes a reference to an omission to do a thing.