Under the scheme, to be eligible a person would have to be terminally ill with a condition that is causing intolerable suffering and is likely to cause death within six months, or 12 months for a neurodegenerative condition.
A person would have to make two verbal requests and one written request. Those requests would have to be signed off by two doctors who are independent of each other.
The choice of lethal medication would be a clinical decision from an approved list of drugs.
Self-administration would be the preferred method, but in a departure from the Victorian regime, a patient could choose for a medical practitioner to administer the drug.
In Victoria, a doctor can only administer the drug if a patient is physically incapable.
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