Clause 5A
Replace new clause 5A (pages 6 and 7) with:
(1)
No person is under any obligation to do anything under this Act, if the person objects on the ground of conscience.
(2)
Subsection (1) applies despite any legal obligation to which a health practitioner or any other person is subject, regardless of how the legal obligation arises.
(3)
No person may be—
denied any employment, accommodation, good, service, right, title, privilege, or benefit of any kind merely because they object on the grounds of conscience as referred to in subsection (1); or
provided or granted any employment, accommodation, good, service, right, title, privilege, or benefit of any kind conditional upon them doing a thing under this Act.
(4)
No agency or entity of the Crown, including district health boards, the Accident Compensation Corporation, or other public sector entity responsible for funding, commissioning, purchasing, or procuring services on behalf of the New Zealand taxpayer may—
make a funding decision against any person on the basis that such person has a conscientious objection to providing assisted dying services; or
make conditional on the provision of assisted dying services any agreement for service or other funding.
(5)
A person exercising their right of conscientious objection under this section may, but is not obliged to, do any or all of the following things:
promote, publish, or otherwise publicly communicate that they have a conscientious objection to providing assisted dying services:
include in conditions of admission, residence, care, or other service that they are a person who has a conscientious objection to providing assisted dying services:
include as a term of employment offered to a prospective employee or contractor that the person to whom this section applies has a conscientious objection to providing assisted dying services and that the prospective employees or contractors will be bound by the prohibition on providing assisted dying services:
include in their contractual arrangements with employees and other agents a provision that the employees or other agents will not provide assisted dying services.
(6)
A person who suffers any loss by reason of any breach of subsection (3) is entitled to recover damages from the person responsible for that breach.