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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Voluntary Assisted Dying</name>
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          <heading>Voluntary Assisted Dying</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6928" referenceid="c092620e916d44159f200e0e1316c6a8" uid="ef780c8e50284c2781d898e4d38793f2" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-02-18T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Voluntary Assisted Dying</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-02-19T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="6928" referenceid="c092620e916d44159f200e0e1316c6a8" uid="ef780c8e50284c2781d898e4d38793f2">the Hon. L.A. HENDERSON </by>().12 November 2024).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="a0b00d8ff0c342d89d5750572c924d12" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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          <question date="2025-02-18T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Voluntary Assisted Dying</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="a0b00d8ff0c342d89d5750572c924d12">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Part 10 of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act (SA) 2021 (the act) establishes the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board (the review board). The review board's functions include that it monitors matters related to voluntary assisted dying (VAD) and that it provide advice to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing in relation to the operation of the act. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Section 129 of the act requires a review of the operation of the act to be completed by 31 January 2028, being the anniversary of the act's fifth year of operation. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The review board will consider feedback received from members of the community, as well as information and learnings collated from compliance reviews of each completed VAD episode, to inform this review. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The review board has advised it will ensure that access to VAD for individuals either convicted of a crime and imprisoned, or those awaiting conviction, is raised and considered as part of this review.</inserted>
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