Section 41D — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

Inducing self-administration of prescribed substance

(1) A person commits a crime if the person, by dishonesty or pressure or duress, induces another person to self-administer a prescribed substance.
(2) In this section—
prescribed substance has the same meaning as in the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022.
pressure or duress has the same meaning as in the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022.

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Related sections

s 41A — Poisoning etc of water supply
s 41B — Unauthorised administration of prescribed substance
s 41C — Inducing another person to request or access voluntary assisted dying
s 41E — Advertising Schedule 4 or 8 poison as voluntary assisted dying substance
s 42 — Injuries to child at time of birth
s 43 — Abandoning or exposing a child under 7 years

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