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End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Act 2021
81Advice to be given to person where AHP determines person has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily
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### 81 Advice to be given to person where AHP determines person has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily
> If a person’s AHP determines under [section 78](#GS78@EN) that the person has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily, the AHP must, as soon as reasonably practicable but in any case within 24 hours, advise the person –
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> > > (a) that the person is entitled to receive assistance to die; and
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> > > (b) of the manner in which the VAD substance that is to be administered, or self-administered, to the person is to be so administered and the consequence of administration of the substance to the person; and
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> > > (c) that if the person wishes to receive assistance to die the person must give to the AHP a final permission under [section 82(1)](#GS82@Gs1@EN) ; and
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> > > (d) that the person is not required to give to the AHP a final permission under [section 82(1)](#GS82@Gs1@EN) and may at any time before that final permission is given, advise the AHP that the person does not wish to receive assistance to die; and
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> > > (e) that, once the final permission is given, the person will immediately be supplied with a VAD substance, or a VAD substance will immediately be administered to the person by the AHP, in accordance with the final permission.