Victorian Numbered Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2017 (NO. 61 OF 2017) - SECT 58

A pharmacist must, on dispensing a prescription for a voluntary assisted dying substance, inform the person to whom the voluntary assisted dying substance is being dispensed—

        (a)     how to self-administer the voluntary assisted dying substance; and

        (b)     that the voluntary assisted dying substance must be stored in a locked box that satisfies the prescribed specifications; and

        (c)     that the person is not under any obligation to self-administer the voluntary assisted dying substance; and

        (d)     that the person or the relevant contact person must return to a pharmacist at the dispensing pharmacy for disposal any dispensed voluntary assisted dying substance—

              (i)     that the person decides not to self-administer; or

              (ii)     that the person does not
self-administer before making
a request under section 53; and

        (e)     that the relevant contact person must return to a pharmacist at the dispensing pharmacy for disposal any dispensed voluntary assisted dying substance that is not self-administered after the person dies.