End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Act 2021
89AHP may supply VAD substance to person
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89 AHP may supply VAD substance to person
(1) If there is a private self-administration certificate in relation to a person, the person’s AHP may, if the AHP is authorised to do so under subsection (2) , supply to the person the VAD substance.
(2) A person’s AHP is authorised to supply to a person a VAD substance, if –
(a) the AHP has, as the person’s PMP, been supplied the substance under section 71(1) or was supplied the substance under section 74 by the person’s PMP; and
(b) to do so is in accordance with the statement of the person included in the person’s final permission in accordance with section 82(3)(c) or (d) ; and
(c) subsection (3) does not apply in relation to the AHP.
(3) A person’s AHP is not authorised to supply a VAD substance to the person if –
(a) the person has informed the AHP under section 16(1) that the person no longer wishes to access voluntary assisted dying; or
(b) the AHP has been notified under section 16(4)(b) by the person’s PMP that the person no longer wishes to access voluntary assisted dying.
(4) The VAD substance to be supplied, under this section, to the person is to be a VAD substance that is supplied to the person’s AHP for self-administration by the person.