New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated Acts(cf Coroners Act 1980 , ss 12B (1) (a)-(g) and 13 (1) (a)-(c), (e)-(h) and (2))
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person’s death is a "reportable death" if the death occurs in any of the following circumstances:(a) the person died a violent or unnatural death,(b) the person died a sudden death the cause of which is unknown,(c) the person died under suspicious or unusual circumstances,(d) the person died in circumstances where the person had not been attended by a medical practitioner during the period of 6 months immediately before the person’s death,(e) the person died in circumstances where the person’s death was not the reasonably expected outcome of a health-related procedure carried out in relation to the person,(f) the person died while in or temporarily absent from a declared mental health facility within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2007 and while the person was a resident at the facility for the purpose of receiving care, treatment or assistance.
(2) A reference to a medical practitioner in subsection (1) includes a reference to a person authorised to practise as a medical practitioner under a law of another State or a Territory.
(3) In this section:
"health-related procedure" means a medical, surgical, dental or other health-related procedure (including the administration of an anaesthetic, sedative or other drug), but does not include any procedure of a kind prescribed by the regulations as being an excluded procedure.