60PMP to decide whether to be AHP

60 PMP to decide whether to be AHP

If a person’s PMP has determined a final request by the person by determining under section 55(a) that the person is eligible to access voluntary assisted dying, the PMP (or, if another person has become the person’s PMP after the person’s final request has been determined under section 55(a) , that person) must, as soon as reasonably practicable but in any case within 48 hours, advise the person as to whether –

(a) the PMP is to be the person’s AHP; or

(b) the PMP does not intend to be the person’s AHP and intends to request the Commission to appoint an AHP in relation to the person.