Advance Medical Directive Act 1996 s 17

s 17 Act permits only natural death and not euthanasia or abetment of suicide

17.—(1) Nothing in this Act authorises an act that causes or accelerates death as distinct from an act that permits the dying process to take its natural course. (2) To avoid doubt, it is declared that nothing in this Act condones, authorises or approves abetment of suicide, mercy killing or euthanasia.

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