No liability for registered health practitioner or ambulance paramedic present after person administered voluntary assisted dying substance
96 No liability for registered health practitioner or ambulance paramedic present after person administered voluntary assisted dying substance
A registered health practitioner, or a person providing an ambulance service (within the meaning of the Health
Care Act 2008), who, in good faith, does not administer life saving or life sustaining medical treatment to a person who has not requested it, and believes on reasonable grounds that the person is dying after being administered or self administering a voluntary assisted dying substance in accordance with this Act, is not, in respect of that omission to act—
guilty of an offence; or
liable for unprofessional conduct or professional misconduct; or
liable in any civil proceeding; or
liable for contravention of any code of conduct.
This section does not prevent a registered health practitioner or a person providing an ambulance service from providing medical treatment for the purpose of ensuring the person's comfort.
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