Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2024

This section applies if—

the administering practitioner functions for an individual are transferred under section 46 or section 47; and

the original administering practitioner is in possession of an approved substance for the individual when the transfer takes effect.

Within 14 days after the day the administering practitioner functions are transferred, the new administering practitioner may ask the original administering practitioner to give the approved substance to the new administering practitioner.

The original administering practitioner must comply with a request under subsection (2) within 2 days after the day it is made.

If the original administering practitioner gives the substance to the new administering practitioner, the new administering practitioner may—

receive the substance for a purpose mentioned in section 66 (2); and

possess the substance for a purpose mentioned in section 66 (2).

Within 4 business days after the day the original administering practitioner gives an approved substance to the new administering practitioner, the original administering practitioner must—

tell the board, by written notice, that they have given the substance to the new administering practitioner; and

tell the director-general, by written notice, that—

the individual has a new administering practitioner; and

the original administering practitioner has given the substance to the new administering practitioner.

A written notice given under subsection (5) (b) must include any information prescribed by regulation.

An offence against subsection (5) (a) is a strict liability offence.