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End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Act 2021
88Duties where unexpected complications arise and person not privately self-administering
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### 88 Duties where unexpected complications arise and person not privately self-administering
> If unexpected complications of a medical kind arise after a VAD substance has, in accordance with [section 86](#GS86@EN) , been administered to, or self-administered by, the person, the person’s AHP must, in accordance with the wishes of the person set out in the person’s final permission –
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> > > (a) administer to the person a substance (which may be a VAD substance) that will enable the person to die more quickly and painlessly than would otherwise be the case; or
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> > > (b) take action that it is reasonable for the AHP to take to preserve the person’s life.