- Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022 No 17
- Status information
- Long title
- Part 1 Preliminary
- Division 1 Preliminary
- Division 2 Principles
- Division 3 Interpretation
- Division 4 Other provisions
- 9 Registered health practitioner may refuse to participate in voluntary assisted dying
- 10 Health care worker not to initiate discussion about voluntary assisted dying
- 11 Contravention of Act by registered health practitioner
- 12 Voluntary assisted dying not suicide
- 13 Inherent jurisdiction of Supreme Court not affected
- 14 Relationship with Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 and Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985
- Part 2 Requirements for access to voluntary assisted dying
- Part 3 Requesting access to voluntary assisted dying and assessment of eligibility
- Division 1 Eligibility requirements for medical practitioners
- Division 2 First request
- 19 Person may make first request to medical practitioner
- 20 No obligation to continue after making first request
- 21 Medical practitioner to accept or refuse first request
- 22 Medical practitioner to record first request and acceptance or refusal
- 23 Medical practitioner to notify Board of first request
- 24 Medical practitioner becomes coordinating practitioner if first request accepted
- Division 3 First assessment
- 25 First assessment
- 26 Referral to another medical practitioner for opinion—disease, illness or medical condition
- 27 Referral for opinion—other matters
- 28 Information to be provided if patient assessed as meeting eligibility criteria
- 29 Outcome of first assessment
- 30 Recording and notification of outcome of first assessment
- 31 Referral for consulting assessment if patient assessed as eligible
- Division 4 Consulting assessment
- 32 Medical practitioner to accept or refuse referral for consulting assessment
- 33 Medical practitioner to record referral and acceptance or refusal
- 34 Medical practitioner to notify Board of referral
- 35 Medical practitioner becomes consulting practitioner if referral accepted
- 36 Consulting assessment
- 37 Referral to another medical practitioner for opinion—disease, illness or medical condition
- 38 Referral for opinion—other matters
- 39 Information to be provided if patient assessed as meeting eligibility criteria
- 40 Outcome of consulting assessment
- 41 Recording and notification of outcome of consulting assessment
- 42 Referral for further consulting assessment if patient assessed as ineligible
- Division 5 Written declaration
- Division 6 Final request and final review
- 48 Patient may make final request to coordinating practitioner
- 49 When final request may be made
- 50 Coordinating practitioner to record final request
- 51 Coordinating practitioner to notify Board of final request
- 52 Final review by coordinating practitioner on receiving final request
- 53 Technical error not to invalidate request and assessment process
- 54 No obligation for patient to continue after completion of request and assessment process
- Part 4 Accessing voluntary assisted dying and death
- Division 1 Eligibility requirements for administering practitioners
- Division 2 Administration of voluntary assisted dying substance
- 56 Application of Division
- 57 Administration decision
- 58 Revocation of administration decision
- 59 Self-administration
- 60 Practitioner administration
- 61 Coordinating practitioner to notify Board about prescription of substance
- 62 Certification by administering practitioner following administration of prescribed substance
- 63 Witness to administration of prescribed substance
- 64 Transfer of administering practitioner’s role
- Division 3 Contact person
- Division 4 Authorisations in relation to voluntary assisted dying substances
- Division 5 Prescribing, supplying and disposing of voluntary assisted dying substance
- 73 Information to be given before prescribing substance
- 74 Prescription for substance
- 75 Authorised supplier to authenticate prescription
- 76 Information to be given when supplying prescribed substance
- 77 Labelling requirements for prescribed substance
- 78 Authorised supplier to record and notify of supply
- 79 Storage of voluntary assisted dying substance
- 80 Disposal of prescribed substance by authorised disposer
- 81 Authorised disposer to record and notify of disposal
- 82 Disposal of prescribed substance by administering practitioner
- 83 Administering practitioner to record and notify of disposal
- Division 6 Other matters
- Part 5 Participation
- Division 1 Preliminary
- Division 2 Residential facilities
- Division 3 Health care establishments
- Part 6 Review by Supreme Court
- 108 Definitions
- 109 Application for review of certain decisions by Supreme Court
- 110 Patient party to proceedings
- 111 Consequences of review application
- 112 Review application taken to be withdrawn if patient dies
- 113 Decision of Supreme Court
- 114 Effect of decision under s 113(a), (c), (e), (f) or (j)
- 115 Effect of decision under s 113(b), (d), (g), (h) or (i)
- 116 Coordinating practitioner may refuse to continue in role
- 117 Hearings of Supreme Court to be held in private
- 118 Notice requirements
- 119 Coordinating and consulting practitioners to give Supreme Court relevant material
- 120 Supreme Court to give written reasons for decision
- 121 Published decisions or reasons to exclude personal information
- 122 Interim orders
- Part 7 Offences
- 123 False or misleading information
- 124 Cancellation of document presented as prescription
- 125 Contact person to give unused or remaining substance to authorised disposer
- 126 Recording, use or disclosure of information
- 127 Publication of personal information concerning proceeding before Supreme Court
- Part 8 Enforcement
- Part 9 Protection from liability
- 130 Protection for persons assisting access to voluntary assisted dying or present when substance administered
- 131 Protection for persons acting in accordance with Act
- 132 Protection for medical practitioner who refers person or seeks information
- 133 Protection for certain persons who do not administer lifesaving treatment
- Part 10 Voluntary Assisted Dying Board
- Part 11 Access standard
- Part 12 General
- 175 Transfer of coordinating practitioner’s role
- 176 Communication between patient and practitioner
- 177 Electronic signature
- 178 Information about voluntary assisted dying
- 179 Official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service
- 180 Health Secretary may approve training, information and other resources
- 181 Guidelines
- 182 Health Secretary may approve forms
- 183 Interpreters
- 184 Relationship with Guardianship Act 1987 and Powers of Attorney Act 2003
- 185 Annual report to include information about palliative care spending
- 186 Review of Act
- 187 Regulations
- Schedule 1A (Repealed)
- Schedule 1 Dictionary
- Historical notes
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022 No 17
Current
version
for 29 November 2023
to date
(accessed 3 May 2024 at 07:34)
Status information
Currency of version
Current
version
for 29 November 2023
to date
(accessed 3 May 2024 at 07:34)
Legislation on this site is usually updated within 3 working days after a change to the legislation.
Provisions in force
The provisions displayed in this version of the legislation have all commenced. See
Historical Notes
Does not include amendments by—
Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 No 73 (not commenced)
Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 No 73 (not commenced)
Responsible Minister
Minister for Health, jointly with the Minister for Regional Health and Minister for Mental Health
Authorisation
This version of the legislation is compiled and maintained in a database of legislation by the Parliamentary Counsel's Office and published on the NSW legislation website, and is certified as the form of that legislation that is correct under section 45C of the
Interpretation Act 1987.