CORONERS ACT 2009 - SECT 37 State Coroner to report on deaths in custody

CORONERS ACT 2009 - SECT 37

37 State Coroner to report on deaths in custody

(cf Coroners Act 1980 , s 12A(4)-(8))

(1) The State Coroner is to make a written report to the Minister containing a summary of the details of the deaths or suspected deaths that--

(a) the State Coroner has been informed about under section 35 or 38, and

(b) appear to the State Coroner to involve the death or suspected death of a person in circumstances referred to in section 23.

(2) A report under subsection (1) is to be made for the period of 12 months commencing on 1 January of each year. A report is to be made within 4 months after the end of the period to which it relates.

(3) The Minister is to cause a copy of the report made to the Minister under subsection (1) to be tabled in each House of Parliament within 21 days after the report is made.

(4) If a House of Parliament is not sitting when the Minister seeks to cause a copy of the report to be tabled before it, the Minister is to cause a copy of the report to be presented to the Clerk of that House of Parliament.

(5) A copy of the report presented to the Clerk of a House of Parliament under this section--

(a) is, on presentation and for all purposes, taken to have been laid before the House, and

(b) may be printed by authority of the Clerk of the House, and

(c) if so printed, is taken to be a document published by or under the authority of the House, and

(d) is to be recorded--

(i) in the case of the Legislative Council--in the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council, and

(ii) in the case of the Legislative Assembly--in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly,

on the first sitting day of the House after receipt of the copy of the report by the Clerk.