Voluntary assisted dying legislation
Voluntary assisted dying and palliative care legislation
A focused index for voluntary assisted dying, end-of-life choices and palliative care legislation already in Zoe.
Current instruments
End-of-life choices and palliative care material
- NSWIn ForceActNo. 17 of 2022
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022
The Act creates a tightly regulated statutory scheme authorising voluntary assisted dying in NSW: eligible terminal patients can request VAD through a multi‑step process of practitioner...
2 case citations
- VICIn ForceAct
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017
The law creates a regulated voluntary assisted dying scheme in Victoria: eligible adults may seek assistance to die only after meeting strict clinical criteria, undergoing dual independent...
1 case citation
- VICIn ForceRegulation
Voluntary Assisted Dying Regulations 2018
These Regulations operationalise the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 by prescribing the exact application and permit forms, labelling, secure storage standards for substances, a...
1 case citation
- SAIn ForceAct
Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995
This Act sets the rules for who can legally consent to or refuse medical treatment, how emergency and end‑of‑life care is handled, and who decides when a patient lacks capacity. It covers...
- TASIn ForceActNo. 1 of 2021
End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Act 2021
This Act creates a tightly regulated pathway for eligible adults to access voluntary assisted dying: defining who qualifies, setting sequential requests and medical checks, and specifying...
- TASIn ForceRegulationNo. 75 of 2022
End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Regulations 2022
These Regulations provide the practical rules that make Tasmania’s Voluntary Assisted Dying law work: prescribed forms, procedures for requests and revocations, record‑keeping and...
- WAIn ForceAct
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019
This Act authorises eligible WA adults with an advanced, progressive, imminently fatal condition to request and receive a voluntary assisted dying substance via a staged process (first...
- SAIn ForceAct
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2021
Creates a regulated system allowing eligible South Australians to access voluntary assisted dying through staged requests, medical assessments, written declarations, permits and oversight...
- ACTIn ForceActNo. 24 of 2024
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2024
This Act creates a regulated, multi‑step pathway by which eligible adults in the ACT can request and obtain voluntary assisted dying, setting practitioner roles, approved medicines/supply...
- QLDIn ForceRegulationNo. 118 of 2022
Voluntary Assisted Dying Regulation 2022
This regulation sets practical rules for how voluntary assisted dying operates in Queensland (from 1 Jan 2023), governing prescriptions, secure labelling, storage and destruction of the...
- ACTIn ForceRegulationNo. 19 of 2025
Voluntary Assisted Dying Regulation 2025
This regulation sets out the operational detail needed to implement the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act in the ACT: what information must be given to people requesting assistance, how...
- SAIn ForceRegulation
Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Regulations 2014
These Regulations set out the practical rules supporting the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995 (SA), prescribing procedural and administrative matters (eg. forms,...
- SAIn ForceRegulation
Voluntary Assisted Dying Regulations 2022
These regulations set out the procedural rules that give effect to South Australia’s Voluntary Assisted Dying scheme — covering how requests are made, assessed, documented, timed and...