Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HEALTH SERVICES (QUALITY IMPROVEMENT) ACT 1994 - SECT 14

14 .         Mortality Committees

        (1)         This Act, other than sections 7, 13 and 15(a) and (b), applies to and in relation to a Mortality Committee as if — 

            (a)         that committee had been declared to be a Committee under section 7;

            (b)         the Minister were the relevant governing body for that committee; and

            (c)         a report made under Part XIIIA, XIIIB or XIIIC of the Health Act 1911 were a report furnished to the relevant governing body.

        (2)         Regulations made under section 15, only apply to Mortality Committees where those regulations specify that they are to have that application.

        (3)         In this section Mortality Committee means — 

            (a)         the Maternal Mortality Committee constituted under Part XIIIA of the Health Act 1911 ;

            (b)         the Perinatal and Infant Mortality Committee constituted under Part XIIIB of that Act; and

            (c)         the Anaesthetic Mortality Committee constituted under Part XIIIC of that Act.

        (4)         The provisions of this section are to be construed so as not to limit in any way the effect and operation of the provisions of Parts XIIIA, XIIIB and XIIIC of the Health Act 1911 .