Document:Voluntary Termination of Life Act
| Long title | An Act to Enact Provisions that Allow for a Terminally Ill Person to Terminate their Life Voluntarily and that Allow for a Person to Enact Clauses in a Living Will Ordering Medical Staff to Terminate the Life of the Said Person in Certain Circumstances; and for Connected Purposes |
| Date of Royal Assent | 21 July 2005 |
WHEREAS in certain circumstances it is necessary for human dignity that a person be able to order the termination of their own life;
NOW THEREFORE, the QUEEN, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, does enact as follows:
1. If a person has recieved a statement from three qualified physicians that they have an interminable illness that will result in their death within four years, they may have their life ended by a doctor by methods approved by the Ibaglian Medical Board.
2. 'Qualified physician' shall be construed to mean a physician who specializes in the concerned area of medicine.
3. If three physicians cannot be found that specialize in the concerned area of medicine, a person must recieve the advice of all available physicians.
4. If a person wishes to place in a living will that is valid under the Living Will Act, 1999, 47-48 Elizabeth II, that they wish to have their life terminated in certain circumstances which they have stated in the document, provided that the said set of circumstances provides for the termination of life only if the person is in a mentally incapacitated state, they may have their life ended by a doctor by methods approved by the Ibaglian Medical Board.
Schedule A, Amendments
The Medical Act, 1956, 4-5 Elizabeth II
The phrase "and may not voluntarily cause the death of any person" to be dropped.