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 assessments, written requests and review before a prescribed substance may be supplied and used. Oversight and operational discretion sit with a Voluntary Assisted Dying...

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 assessments by trained doctors, completing formal requests, and obtaining permits from the Secretary. A Review Board monitors compliance and publishes de‑identified data....

These Regulations operationalise the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 by prescribing the exact application and permit forms, labelling, secure storage standards for substances, a 3 business‑day decision timetable for the Secretary, and two approved interpreter bodies. They affect coordinating medical practitioners, the Secretary, dispensing pharmacies,...

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 supply and administration rules. It establishes practitioner roles (requesting, consulting, administering), a Voluntary Assisted Dying Commission to approve training, list...

End of Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Regulations 2022 supplies a few technical rules for the Act: it sets the regulations' citation, makes them commence when the Act commences, defines “the Act”, and prescribes the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) as the translator accreditation body used under section...

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 request, two independent medical assessments, written declaration, final request and review). It sets out eligibility, practitioner roles, detailed...

Creates a regulated system allowing eligible South Australians to access voluntary assisted dying through staged requests, medical assessments, written declarations, permits and oversight by a Review Board. It sets eligibility (age, residency, terminal prognosis), practitioner qualifications and training, time limits, conscientious‑objection rights,...

This law creates a regulated process in Queensland by which an eligible adult may request medical assistance to end their life. It sets eligibility tests (terminal, intolerable suffering, capacity, residency), a multi‑step consent and assessment pathway, practitioner roles, a contact person, supplier/disposer rules, recordkeeping, penalties and a Review...

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 rules, time‑bound reporting, and criminal penalties for coercion or misuse. It affects patients, authorised practitioners, suppliers, facility operators and the Territory...

This regulation sets out operational rules for prescribing, supplying, labelling, storing and disposing of voluntary assisted dying substances and prescribes the information the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board must record. It specifies required prescription and label content, secure storage and destruction standards, supply time limits and retention...

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 prescriptions, supply, labelling, storage and disposal of approved substances must be handled, who may be authorised to act and what training and records are required. It binds...

These regulations set the administrative rules for voluntary assisted dying. They prescribe minister made forms, accredited interpreters (with Chief Executive exemptions), a 3 business day permit decision period, steel locked box storage and labeling rules for substances, and who may seek Tribunal review; they also repeal the 2021 regulations. Patients,...

The Crimes Act 1900 is New South Wales' core criminal law. It defines hundreds of crimes (from murder and assault to theft, sexual offences, and modern ones like coercive control or animal sexual abuse) and sets the maximum penalties courts can impose. It affects every resident and visitor in NSW: police use it to investigate, courts to decide guilt and...

The legislation sets step by step court procedures for criminal cases in NSW, from starting matters to deciding summary versus jury trials, and governs evidence sharing, special protections for vulnerable witnesses, and fair witness processes. It affects accused people, prosecutors, courts and victims by allocating rights, disclosure duties and case...

The Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008 (from 1 Sept 2008) sets hygiene, labelling and premises standards for exposed therapeutic substances; detailed seizure, sampling, storage and disposal procedures; and a licensing, fee and location regime for retail, wholesale and manufacture of poisons and drugs. It affects pharmacists, authorised...

This part sets out VCAT’s case‑management, ADR and enforcement framework: who must be served or notified, who may join or intervene, powers to direct, dismiss or strike out, require document production, order security for costs, and compel mediation or a residential tenancy ADR pathway. It affects applicants, respondents, intervenors, non‑parties holding...

This law lets the tribunal appoint guardians (personal matters) and administrators (financial matters) when an adult lacks capacity; it includes advance appointments for young people and special missing‑person appointments and sets out eligibility, duties, review and revocation rules (s.12; s.13; s.12A; s.28; s.26). The tribunal decides appointments and...

This Act provides transitional and consequential rules to move from the Disability Services Act 2011 to the new Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act 2024. It preserves existing approvals and pending applications, transfers decision making to the new Senior Practitioner and allows continuation of Tribunal and court reviews; it gives power to...

Creates a legal framework for recording advance care directives, appointing medical treatment decision makers and support persons, and for authorising medical research and treatment where a person lacks decision‑making capacity. It sets formal witnessing, consent pathways, record‑keeping, liability protections and VCAT review powers. It affects patients,...

What this instrument is This is the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026 for New South Wales. It is a subordinate regulation that, when in force, will set detailed rules that support and implement the parent legislation dealing with medicines, poisons and therapeutic goods. What the displayed version actually shows (mechanics) The copy...

This Act implements mainly textual and procedural amendments across many laws by updating authorised versions of those Acts and making targeted wording changes to the Mental Health Act 2013 concerning assessment orders and their form and content. It commences by proclamation. It affects clinicians, courts, corrections and administrative officers who make or...