Marginal note:2016, c. 3, s. 4

• 3 (1) Subsections 241.31(1) and (2) of the Act are replaced by the following:

  Marginal note:Filing information — practitioners

  • 241.31 (1) Unless they are exempted under regulations made under subsection (3), a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner who carries out an assessment of whether a person meets the criteria set out in subsection 241.2(1) or who receives a written request for medical assistance in dying must, in accordance with those regulations, provide the information required by those regulations to the recipient designated in those regulations.

  • Marginal note:Filing information — responsible for preliminary assessments

    (1.1) Unless they are exempted under regulations made under subsection (3), any person who has the responsibility to carry out preliminary assessments of whether a person meets the criteria set out in subsection 241.2(1) must, in accordance with those regulations, provide the information required by those regulations to the recipient designated in those regulations.

  • Marginal note:Filing information — pharmacist and pharmacy technicians

    (2) Unless they are exempted under regulations made under subsection (3), a pharmacist who dispenses a substance in connection with the provision of medical assistance in dying, or the person permitted to act as a pharmacy technician under the laws of a province who dispenses a substance to aid a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner in providing a person with medical assistance in dying, must, in accordance with those regulations, provide the information required by those regulations to the recipient designated in those regulations.

• Marginal note:2016, c. 3, s. 4

  (2) The portion of paragraph 241.31(3)(a) before subparagraph (ii) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (a) respecting the provision and collection, for the purpose of monitoring medical assistance in dying, of information relating to requests for, and the provision of, medical assistance in dying, including

    • (i) the information to be provided, at various stages, by medical practitioners, nurse practitioners, persons referred to in subsection (1.1) who have the responsibility to carry out preliminary assessments, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, or by a class of any of them, including

      • (A) the elements considered in the course of the assessments — preliminary or otherwise — of whether a person meets the criteria set out in subsection 241.2(1),

      • (B) information respecting the race or indigenous identity of a person who requests or receives medical assistance in dying, if the person consents to providing this information, and

      • (C) information — other than information that must be provided in relation to the assessment of eligibility to receive medical assistance in dying and the application of safeguards — respecting any disability, as defined in section 2 of the Accessible Canada Act, of a person who requests or receives medical assistance in dying, if the person consents to providing that information,

• (2.1) Paragraph 241.31(3)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (b) respecting the use, analysis and interpretation of that information, including for the purposes of determining the presence of any inequality — including systemic inequality — or disadvantage based on race, Indigenous identity, disability or other characteristics, in medical assistance in dying;

  • (b.1) respecting the protection, publication, and disclosure of that information;

• (3) Paragraph 241.31(3)(d) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (d) exempting, on any terms that may be specified, a class of persons from the requirements set out in subsections (1) to (2).

• Marginal note:2016, c. 3, s. 4

  (4) The portion of subsection 241.31(4) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Offence and punishment

    (4) A medical practitioner or nurse practitioner who knowingly fails to comply with subsection (1), a person having the responsibility to carry out preliminary assessments who knowingly fails to comply with subsection (1.1) or a pharmacist or pharmacy technician who knowingly fails to comply with subsection (2),

• (5) Section 241.31 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (5):

  • Marginal note:Consultation

    (6) In performing his or her functions or duties under subsection (3), the Minister of Health must, when appropriate, consult with the minister responsible for the status of persons with disabilities.