Proposed amendment to SOP No 259
Hon Maggie Barry, in Committee, to move the following amendment:
New clause 18C
After clause 18B (page 17), insert:
18C Register of cases of elder abuse in relation to assisted dying
(1)
The Minister of Justice must establish a Register of Cases of Elder Abuse in Relation to Assisted Dying (the Register), which is to be administered by the Ministry of Justice.
(2)
The Register is a record of all cases where—
(a)
a request has been made under section 8; and
(b)
the attending medical practitioner or independent medical practitioner has found the individual requesting assisted dying to be a victim of coercion or other form of elder abuse.
(3)
The Register is to be established and maintained by a Registrar, and must record the following:
(a)
the details of any individual who—
(i)
requested assisted dying; and
(ii)
has been found by the attending medical practitioner or independent medical practitioner to be a victim of coercion or other form of elder abuse; and
(b)
the location in which the request made under section 8 occurred; and
(c)
the ethnicity, sex, and age of the individual who requested assisted dying; and
(d)
if it occurred, the location of their death, where that death was as a result of assisted dying under section 16.