Voluntary assisted dying not suicide

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For the purposes of a territory law, and for the purposes of a contract, deed or other instrument entered into in the ACT or governed by a territory law, an individual who dies as the result of the administration of an approved substance by or to the individual in accordance with this Act—

(a)

does not die by suicide; and

(b)

is taken to have died from the condition mentioned in section 11 (1) (b).

This Act’s bill:Explanatory statement Second reading speech

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8 Voluntary assisted dying not suicide