Forgery
241.4 (1) Everyone commits an offence who commits forgery in relation to a request for medical assistance in dying.
Destruction of documents
(2) Everyone commits an offence who destroys a document that relates to a request for medical assistance in dying with intent to interfere with
(a) another person’s access to medical assistance in dying;
(b) the lawful assessment of a request for medical assistance in dying;
(c) another person invoking an exemption under any of subsections 227(1) or (2), 241(2) to (5) or 245(2); or
(d) the provision by a person of information under section 241.31.
Punishment
(3) Everyone who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Definition of document
(4) In subsection (2), document has the same meaning as in section 321.
Annotations
- Part VIII