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Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2024
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146 Effect of ACAT decision that individual meets relevant
requirement
(1) This section applies if the ACAT—
(a) makes any of the following orders under section 145:
(i) an order that the individual has decision-making capacity
in relation to voluntary assisted dying;
(ii) an order that the individual is acting voluntarily and
without coercion;
(iii) an order that the individual has lived in the ACT for at least
the previous 12 months; and
(b) does not also make any of the following orders under
section 145 in the same proceeding:
(i) an order that the individual does not have decision-making
capacity in relation to voluntary assisted dying;
(ii) an order that the individual is not acting voluntarily and
without coercion;
(iii) an order that the individual has not lived in the ACT for at
least the previous 12 months.
(2) The order is taken to be the decision of the decision-maker for the
reviewable decision.