議会通過は19年12月
施行は20年6月
一般には耐え難い苦痛を引き起こす余命6か月の病気。
進行性の神経系の病気や障害の場合には余命12か月。
口頭で2回、文書で1回の申請。
互いに独立の2人の医師の承認による。
17年合法化のヴィクトリア州では
患者が自分で摂取できない場合にのみ安楽死が可能。
WA州では、患者がいずれかを選択できる。
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.
