Supreme Court of Queensland Act and Another Act Amendment Bill 1998 (Qld)

Queensland

SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND ACT AND ANOTHER ACT AMENDMENT BILL 1998

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SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND ACT AND ANOTHER ACT AMENDMENT BILL 1998

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page PART 1—PRELIMINARY 1 Short title 2.2... eee eee 4 PART 2—AMENDMENT OF CORONERS ACT 1958 2 Act amended in pt2 ......... 0... eee 4 3 Insertion of new s 62.2... 6. eee eee 4 62 Transitional declaration—deaths before 1 December 1998 ....... 4

PART 3—AMENDMENT OF SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND ACT 1991

4 Act amended in pt9 2.1... cece eects 5

5 Amendment of s 118B (Court rules are exempt from RIS requirements and automatic expiry) ...... 6.0.00. eee eee eee eee eee 5

A BILL

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An Act to amend the Supreme Court of Queensland Act 1991 and the Coroners Act 1958

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Supreme Court of Queensland Act and Another Act Amendment

The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court of Queensland Act and Another Act Amendment Act 1998.

PART 2—AMENDMENT OF CORONERS ACT 1958

Act amended in pt 2 2. This part amends the Coroners Act 1958.

Insertion of new s 62 3. Part 18— insert— 'Transitional declaration—deaths before 1 December 1998

"62.(1) This section applies on or after 1 December 1998 in relation to the body of a person who died before 1 December 1998.

'(2) A permission and certificate to cremate the body may be given, and may always have been given, and the body may be cremated and may always have been cremated, as if the Justice Legislation (Miscellaneous 1114 16 Supreme Court of Queensland Act and Another Act Amendment

Provisions) Act 1996 had not been enacted.!

"(3) To remove doubt it is declared that subsection (2) does not prevent the giving of a permission and certificate to cremate, or the cremation of a body, in accordance with section 23A.2