No liability for registered health practitioner or ambulance paramedic present after person administered voluntary assisted dying substance
81 No liability for registered health practitioner or ambulance paramedic present after person administered voluntary assisted dying substance
A registered health practitioner or an ambulance paramedic 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 an ambulance paramedic from providing medical treatment for the purpose of ensuring the person's comfort.
In this section—
ambulance paramedic means a person employed or engaged by an ambulance service, within the meaning of the Ambulance Services Act 1986—
as an ambulance paramedic or intensive care paramedic; or
in any capacity to provide medical or other assistance to patients in an emergency.
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