Senators have voted to adopt the controversial assisted dying legislation, known as Bill C-14, but it won’t be able to meet the Supreme Court’s deadline of Monday.

Members of the upper chamber have voted to support it in principle but also to send it to the Senate’s legal committee.

But following the vote, they opted to adjourn until Tuesday.

The country’s high court agreed to a four-month extension on the year it had given Parliament to come up with a law.

Medical regulators in each province has issued guidelines for physicians on provided assistance in dying.

They impose safeguards similar to and in some cases, even strong than those proposed in the Trudeau government’s legislation.