What does AWIA stand for?

Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act

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2000 Adults With Incapacity Act In the first major piece of legislation passed by Holyrood, the Scottish parliament addresses a hugely complex area that's of deep concern to more than 100,000 families across the country.

Patients become partners with NHS; Improving the nation's health is ...

The new legislation will be a part of the Mental Capacity Act later this year, mirroring the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act.

Patients' Act to be rolled out

The Adults with Incapacity Act was designed to protect vulnerable patients who are too ill to give consent to treatment.

GPs urged to break law; Angry doctors call for action against ...

Under the Adults with Incapacity Bill, gay couples will be treated in the same way as people in heterosexual marriages.

Gay rights on the house; Homosexuals to get same status as married ...

The first law to be affected by any change would be the Adults with Incapacity Bill, now being considered by the parliament.

Gay couples set to win family rights; ANGER OVER RADICAL CHANGE IN ...

That is the question at the heart of the current debate over the so-called 'living wills' which could become commonplace if the draft Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill, now before the Scottish parliament, becomes law.

WHY LIVING WILLS ARE AN OPEN DOOR TO MERCY KILLINGS

But representatives of the Roman Catholic Church say the draft Adults With Incapacity (Scotland) Bill will effectively establish the principle of people drawing up a legal document asserting the right to die if they fall ill.

EUTHANASIA FEAR OVER MOVE FOR LIVING WILLS

In evidence to the Scottish parliament's justice committee the groups claimed the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill raised the possibility of patients being deprived of food and fluids at the insistence of a relative empowered to take that decision.

Catholic warning over 'euthanasia by the back door'