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End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Act 2021
133Protection for persons assisting access to voluntary assisted dying process
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### 133 Protection for persons assisting access to voluntary assisted dying process
> A person does not incur any criminal liability –
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> > > (a) by, in good faith, assisting another person to make a request, give a final permission, make a private self-administration request or to otherwise participate in the voluntary assisted dying process, other than by administering a VAD substance to a person, or assisting a person to self-administer a VAD substance, otherwise than as authorised under this Act; or
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> > > (b) by being present when another person self-administers, or is administered, a VAD substance in accordance with this Act.