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| First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, | |
| 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023 | |
| STATUTES OF CANADA 2023 | |
| CHAPTER 1 | |
| An Act to amend An Act to amend the | |
| Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) | |
| ASSENTED TO | |
| MARCH 9, 2023 | |
| BILL C-39 | |
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| SUMMARY | |
| This enactment amends An Act to amend the Criminal Code | |
| (medical assistance in dying) to delay, until March 17, 2024, the | |
| repeal of the exclusion from eligibility for receiving medical as- | |
| sistance in dying in circumstances where the sole underlying | |
| medical condition identified in support of the request for medical | |
| assistance in dying is a mental illness. | |
| Available on the House of Commons website at the following address: | |
| www.ourcommons.ca | |
| 2021-2022-2023 | |
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| 70-71 ELIZABETH II – 1 CHARLES III | |
| CHAPTER 1 | |
| An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code | |
| (medical assistance in dying) | |
| [Assented to 9th March, 2023] | |
| His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent | |
| of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, | |
| enacts as follows: | |
| 2021, c. 2 | |
| An Act to amend the Criminal | |
| Code (medical assistance in | |
| dying) | |
| 1 Section 6 of An Act to amend the Criminal | |
| Code (medical assistance in dying) is replaced | |
| by the following: | |
| March 17, 2024 | |
| 6 Subsection 1(2.1) comes into force on March 17, | |
| 2024. | |
| Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons | |
| 2021-2022-2023 | |
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| Available on the House of Commons website | |
| Disponible sur le site Web de la Chambre des com | |