This amendment is defining the mode under which consent is provided. That's all I'm doing. In section (e) it's “written”, in section (f) it's “recorded”. It just brings it into more consistency with section 241.31. With the regulations the Minister of Health can define how information is collected.
This would give greater certainty that after the fact there's a means to double-check whether written consent or informed consent was provided, so we don't fall into the situation where in some other jurisdictions, which do have medical assistance in dying, that after the fact they found situations where a person had not consented to the procedure being done.
This is just to create consistency between different sections of this act.