End of Life Choice Bill

  • enacted
18 Destruction of prescription if no longer required

(1)

Subsection (2) applies if—

(a)

an attending medical practitioner, or an attending nurse practitioner, holds a prescription written under section 15(4)(a); and

(b)

the medication is no longer required.

(2)

The attending medical practitioner, or the attending nurse practitioner, must—

(a)

immediately destroy the prescription; and

(b)

complete a prescribed an approved form recording the action taken to comply with paragraph (a); and

(c)

send the completed form to the rRegistrar.