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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