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On 20/06/2013, you requested for the version in force on 20/06/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/06/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 15/06/1998.
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Certification of terminal illness
6.  --(1) A certification by a medical practitioner that a person is suffering from a terminal illness and a request for a search of the register under section 9(1) of the Act shall be in Form 5 set out in the Schedule.
(2)  The Registrar shall inform the medical practitioner of the result of his search of the register under section 9(2) of the Act in Form 6 set out in the Schedule.
(3)  The medical practitioner responsible for the treatment of the patient shall obtain the opinions of the 2 medical practitioners required under section 9(3) of the Act in Form 7 set out in the Schedule.
(4)  Where a committee of 3 specialists is appointed under section 9(5) of the Act, the Registrar shall notify each specialist and obtain his opinion as to whether the patient is suffering from a terminal illness in Form 8 set out in the Schedule.
(5)  For the purposes of section 9(8) of the Act, the determination by a committee of 3 specialists as to whether a patient is suffering from a terminal illness shall be recorded in Form 9 set out in the Schedule.
(6)  For the purposes of section 10(3) of the Act, the medical practitioner shall certify whether the patient is pregnant, on page 3 of Form 7 set out in the Schedule or, where the committee of 3 specialists is unanimously in agreement that the patient is suffering from a terminal illness, on page 2 of Form 9 set out in the Schedule.