Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Exemption for medical assistance in dying

• 227 (1) No medical practitioner or nurse practitioner commits culpable homicide if they provide a person with medical assistance in dying in accordance with section 241.2.

• Marginal note:Exemption for person aiding practitioner

  (2) No person is a party to culpable homicide if they do anything for the purpose of aiding a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner to provide a person with medical assistance in dying in accordance with section 241.2.

• Marginal note:Reasonable but mistaken belief

  (3) For greater certainty, the exemption set out in subsection (1) or (2) applies even if the person invoking it has a reasonable but mistaken belief about any fact that is an element of the exemption.

• Marginal note:Non-application of section 14

  (4) Section 14 does not apply with respect to a person who consents to have death inflicted on them by means of medical assistance in dying provided in accordance with section 241.2.

• Marginal note:Definitions

  (5) In this section, medical assistance in dying, medical practitioner and nurse practitioner have the same meanings as in section 241.1.