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Administering practitioner to notify board, coordinating practitioner and director-general about death

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Part 4Accessing voluntary assisted dying and death
Division 4.4Notifications about death

80 Administering practitioner to notify board, coordinating practitioner and director-general about death

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

the individual dies of any cause; and

(b)

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

(c)

the individual’s administering practitioner is not—

(i)

the individual’s coordinating practitioner; or

(ii)

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

(2)

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

(a)

give written notice of the death to—

(i)

the board; and

(ii)

the director-general; and

(b)

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

Maximum penalty (paragraph (a) (i)): 20 penalty units.

(3)

An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.

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