Bill C-39
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- An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)
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AS PASSED
BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
February 15, 2023
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) to delay, until March 17, 2024, the repeal of the exclusion from eligibility for receiving medical assistance in dying in circumstances where the sole underlying medical condition identified in support of the request for medical assistance in dying is a mental illness.
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Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
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BILL C-39 |
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An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) |
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
2021, c. 2
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)
1 Section 6 of An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) is replaced by the following:
March 17, 2024
6 Subsection 1(2.1) comes into force on March 17, 2024.
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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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