Criminal Code

Marginal note:Forgery

• 241.4 (1) Everyone commits an offence who commits forgery in relation to a request for medical assistance in dying.

• Marginal note: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.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (3) Everyone who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) is liable

  • (a) on conviction on indictment, to a term of imprisonment of not more than five years; or

  • (b) on summary conviction, to a term of imprisonment of not more than 18 months.

• Marginal note:Definition of document

  (4) In subsection (2), document has the same meaning as in section 321.