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Western Australia
Coroners Amendment Bill 2004
CONTENTS
1. Short title 1
2. The Act amended 2
3. Section 53A inserted 2
276--1 page i
Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Coroners Amendment Bill 2004
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Coroners Act 1996.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Coroners Amendment Act 2004.
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2. The Act amended
The amendments in this Act are to the Coroners Act 1996*.
[* Act No. 2 of 1996.
For subsequent amendments see Western Australian
5 Legislation Information Tables for 2003, Table 1, p. 81.]
3. Section 53A inserted
Before section 54, the following section is inserted in Part 6 --
"
53A. State Coroner may provide information about
10 deaths to human tissue donation agencies
(1) At the request of a human tissue donation agency, the
State Coroner may provide to that agency the following
information in respect of any deceased person whose
death there is jurisdiction to investigate under this
15 Act --
(a) the deceased person's name;
(b) the deceased person's age;
(c) a brief description of the circumstances of
death;
20 (d) the name of the deceased person's senior next
of kin, or if that is not known, the name of any
of the person's next of kin under section 37(5);
and
(e) an address, telephone number or other contact
25 details for the person whose name is provided
under paragraph (d).
(2) If information is provided under subsection (1) in a
document, then the human tissue donation agency to
which it was provided is to ensure that the document is
30 destroyed within 2 days of it being so provided.
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(3) In this section --
"human tissue donation agency" means an office or
organisational unit which --
(a) coordinates or encourages the donation of
5 human tissue for transplantation in
accordance with the Human Tissue and
Transplant Act 1982; and
(b) is within the department of the Public
Service principally assisting the Minister
10 administering that Act.
".
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