Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying

Marginal note:Prescribing or providing a substance — general

• 7 (1) A practitioner who has received a patient’s written request for medical assistance in dying and provides medical assistance in dying by prescribing or providing a substance to the patient for self-administration must provide the applicable recipient designated under section 2 with the information referred to in Schedules 1 and 3 to 5 no earlier than 90 days after the day on which the practitioner prescribes or provides the substance and no later than 120 days after that day.

• Marginal note:Prescribing or providing a substance — Ontario

  (2) Despite subsection (1), a practitioner who has received a patient’s written request for medical assistance in dying and provides medical assistance in dying in Ontario by prescribing or providing a substance to the patient for self-administration must provide the information referred to in Schedules 1 and 3 to 5, no earlier than 90 days after the day on which the practitioner prescribes or provides the substance and no later than 120 days after that day,

  • (a) to the recipient designated under subsection 2(1), except in the case referred to in paragraph (b); or

  • (b) to the recipient designated under paragraph 2(2)(a), in the case where, when the practitioner provides the information, the practitioner knows that the patient has died following self-administration of the substance.

• Marginal note:Exception — time to report

  (3) The practitioner may provide the information earlier than 90 days after the day on which the practitioner prescribes or provides the substance to the patient if the practitioner knows that the patient has died.

• Marginal note:Exception — no other information required

  (4) A practitioner who provides information in accordance with subsection (1) or (2) is not required to provide information under section 9.