Notification of death
87 Notification of death
A patient’s coordinating practitioner or administering practitioner must, within 5 business days after becoming aware the patient has died, notify the Board, in the approved form, of the patient’s death.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
Subsection (1) applies whether or not the patient dies after self-administering, or being administered, a voluntary assisted dying substance in accordance with this Act.
Subsection (1) does not apply if the administering practitioner for a patient gives the Board a copy of a practitioner administration form in relation to the patient under section 62(4).
Subsections (5) and (6) apply if a medical practitioner who is required to give a cause of death certificate for a person knows or reasonably believes the person was a patient who self-administered, or was administered, a voluntary assisted dying substance in accordance with this Act.
The medical practitioner must, within 5 business days after becoming aware the person has died, notify the Board, in the approved form, of the person’s death unless the medical practitioner is the person’s coordinating practitioner or administering practitioner.
The medical practitioner must identify the following in the cause of death certificate for the person—
that the medical practitioner knows or reasonably believes the patient self-administered, or was administered, a voluntary assisted dying substance in accordance with this Act,
the disease, illness or medical condition with which the person had been diagnosed that made the person eligible to access voluntary assisted dying.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
In this section—
cause of death certificate, for a person, means a notice of the death of the person and of the cause of the person’s death under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995, section 39(1).
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