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Queensland
Coroners and Births, Deaths
and Marriages Registration
Amendment Bill 2007
Queensland
Coroners and Births, Deaths and
Marriages Registration Amendment Bill
2007
Contents
Page
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Part 2 Amendment of Coroners Act 2003
2 Act amended in pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Amendment of s 8 (Reportable death defined) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Insertion of new s 10B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
10B Elective health procedures--notification about
cause of death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Part 3 Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Act 2003
6 Act amended in pt 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7 Amendment of s 30 (Cause of death certificate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2007
A Bill
for
An Act to amend the Coroners Act 2003 and the Births, Deaths
and Marriages Registration Act 2003
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Registration Amendment Bill 2007
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
Part 1 Preliminary 2
Clause 1 Short title 3
This Act may be cited as the Coroners and Births, Deaths and 4
Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2007. 5
Part 2 Amendment of Coroners Act 6
2003 7
Clause 2 Act amended in pt 2 8
This part amends the Coroners Act 2003. 9
Clause 3 Amendment of s 8 (Reportable death defined) 10
Section 8(3)-- 11
insert-- 12
`(da) the death happened within 30 days after the person 13
underwent an elective health procedure; or'. 14
Clause 4 Insertion of new s 10B 15
After section 10A-- 16
insert-- 17
`10B Elective health procedures--notification about 18
cause of death 19
`(1) This section applies if a person dies within 30 days after the 20
person underwent an elective health procedure. 21
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Registration Amendment Bill 2007
`(2) The doctor who was in charge of the health procedure must, as 1
soon as practicable after the doctor becomes aware of the 2
person's death, give a coroner a written notice stating the 3
doctor's opinion as to the cause of the person's death. 4
Maximum penalty--25 penalty units.'. 5
Clause 5 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) 6
Schedule 2-- 7
insert-- 8
`elective health procedure means a health procedure that 9
could be delayed for 24 hours without the death of the person 10
who is to undergo the health procedure being a likely outcome 11
of the delay.'. 12
Part 3 Amendment of Births, Deaths 13
and Marriages Registration Act 14
2003 15
Clause 6 Act amended in pt 3 16
This part amends the Births, Deaths And Marriages 17
Registration Act 2003. 18
Clause 7 Amendment of s 30 (Cause of death certificate) 19
(1) Section 30(1)(a)(ii)-- 20
renumber as-- 21
section 30(1)(a)(iii). 22
(2) Section 30(1)(a)-- 23
insert-- 24
`(ii) for a deceased person who has died in a hospital 25
operated by the State--is the doctor who was 26
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Registration Amendment Bill 2007
responsible for the care of the deceased person; 1
or'. 2
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