Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying

Marginal note:Personal information collected from provinces and territories

• 12 (1) The Minister of Health may, for the purposes of monitoring medical assistance in dying, collect personal information relating to requests for, and the provision of, medical assistance in dying from a provincial or territorial government, or any of its institutions, or from a public body established under an Act of the legislature of a province or territory.

• Marginal note:Other information

  (2) Without restricting the generality of subsection (1), the Minister of Health may, for the same purposes, request that they provide the Minister, on a voluntary basis, with the following information:

  • (a) the number of persons who died as a result of having received medical assistance in dying in the province or territory; and

  • (b) personal information relating to the death of persons who died as a result of having received medical assistance in dying in the province or territory, including

    • (i) copies of medical certificates of death of those persons, and

    • (ii) the findings of any investigations undertaken by the Chief Coroner or Chief Medical Examiner in respect of the deaths of those persons.