End of Life Choice Bill - Amendment paper No 349
End of Life Choice Bill - Amendment paper No 349
End of Life Choice Bill - Amendment paper No 349
No 349
House of Representatives
Supplementary Order Paper
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
End of Life Choice Bill
Proposed amendment to SOP No 259
Agnes Loheni, in Committee, to move the following amendment:
Clause 21
In clause 21(1), after “The Director-General must nominate an employee of the Ministry as the Registrar (assisted dying)”
(page 19), insert “, who can have no other duties as an employee (or other agent) of the Ministry, including, in particular, in relation to assisted dying”
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Explanatory note
This Supplementary Order Paper amends Supplementary Order Paper No 259 amending the End of Life Choice Bill by clarifying that the person holding the position as the Registrar is not to have any other duties.
The reasons for this proposal include that:
the position of Registrar is sufficiently important that it should not be a less-than-fulltime role; and
the possibility of conflicts of interest—as between different professional roles held by the same person—should be reduced as far as reasonably possible