Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2024

This section applies if—

the individual dies of any cause; and

there is a practitioner administration decision in effect when the individual dies; and

the individual’s administering practitioner is not—

the individual’s coordinating practitioner; or

required to give the board an administration certificate under section 81.

Within 4 business days after the day the administering practitioner becomes aware of the individual’s death, the administering practitioner must—

give written notice of the death to—

the board; and

the director-general; and

if the administering practitioner is not the individual’s coordinating practitioner—tell the coordinating practitioner about the death.

An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.