Western Australian Current Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2019 - SECT 59

59 .         Practitioner administration

        (1)         This section applies if the patient has made a practitioner administration decision and has not revoked it.

        (2)         The coordinating practitioner for the patient is authorised to prescribe a voluntary assisted dying substance for the patient that is of a sufficient dose to cause death.

        (3)         The authorised supplier who is given the prescription for the patient is authorised to —

            (a)         possess the prescribed substance for the purpose of preparing it and supplying it to the administering practitioner for the patient; and

            (b)         prepare the prescribed substance; and

            (c)         supply the prescribed substance to the administering practitioner for the patient.

        (4)         The administering practitioner for the patient is authorised to —

            (a)         receive the prescribed substance from an authorised supplier; and

            (b)         possess the prescribed substance for the purpose of preparing it and administering it to the patient; and

            (c)         prepare the prescribed substance.

        (5)         The administering practitioner for the patient is authorised, in the presence of a witness, to administer the prescribed substance to the patient if the administering practitioner is satisfied at the time of administration that —

            (a)         the patient has decision-making capacity in relation to voluntary assisted dying; and

            (b)         the patient is acting voluntarily and without coercion; and

            (c)         the patient’s request for access to voluntary assisted dying is enduring.