CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 242A
CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 242A
242A . CEO to notify Ombudsman of certain deaths of children
(1) In this section
—
Commissioner has the meaning given in the
Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971 section 4;
investigable death has the meaning given in the
Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971 section 19A.
(2) The CEO must give
the Commissioner written notice of any investigable death within 14 days after
the date on which the Coroner notifies the CEO of the death.
(3) If requested in
writing by the Commissioner to do so, the CEO must give the Commissioner
—
(a) any
information in relation to the death of a child that has not been notified
under subsection (2) that the Commissioner requires for the purpose of
enabling the Commissioner to decide whether the death is an investigable
death; and
(b) if
the CEO is of the opinion the death is not an investigable death, reasons for
the opinion.
[Section 242A inserted: No. 10 of 2009 s. 11.]