179Official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service

179 Official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service

179 Official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service

(1) The Health Secretary may, by Gazette notice, approve an entity to be an official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service for this Act.

(2) The purpose of an official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service is to provide support, assistance and information in relation to voluntary assisted dying to entities, including—

(a) patients, and

(b) patients’ carers, family and friends, and

(c) doctors and other members of patients’ health care teams, and

(d) residential facility managers, and other persons employed or otherwise engaged by or providing services at, residential facilities.

(3) If an official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service is given a list of registered health practitioners kept under section 136(1)(b), a relevant person must not intentionally—

(a) give a copy of the list to another entity that is not also a relevant person, or

(b) disclose information on the list to another person unless the other person—

(i) has requested access to voluntary assisted dying, or

(ii) is assisting another person who has requested access.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(4) In this section—

relevant person means a person employed by, or otherwise engaged or acting for, an official voluntary assisted dying care navigator service.