PUBLIC HEALTH (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2016 (NO. 19 OF 2016) - SECT 38

PUBLIC HEALTH (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2016 (NO. 19 OF 2016) - SECT 38

38 .         Section 336A amended

        (1)         Delete section 336A(2) and insert:

        (2)         On receiving the report, the Chief Health Officer must, by notice in writing signed by the Chief Health Officer —

            (a)         direct an investigator appointed under Part XIIIB to enquire into the circumstances of that stillbirth or death; and

            (b)         require the investigator to present to the Chairperson of the Perinatal and Infant Mortality Committee appointed under that Part, within a time specified in the notice, a full report of the investigation made by the investigator.

        (3A)         Subsection (2) does not apply if the Chief Health Officer is satisfied that the cause of death arose from —

            (a)         a specific injury; or

            (b)         an illness that the Committee has directed does not require further investigation.

        (2)         In section 336A(3) delete “Chairman” and insert:

                Chairperson

        (3)         In section 336A(4):

            (a)         delete “him” and insert:

                the investigator

            (b)         delete “Chairman” (each occurrence) and insert:

                Chairperson