S45 St; wn ++ AUDAX - AT: FIDELIS + Queensland Coroners and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2007 Queensland Coroners and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill Contents Part 1 Part 2 Page Preliminary Shorttitle 2.0... eee 4 Amendment of Coroners Act 2003 Act amended in pt2............ 0.0.0.0. 2 cece eee eee 4 Amendment of s 8 (Reportable death defined) .............. 4 Insertion of newS10B.... 0.20... eee eee 4 10B Elective health procedures—notification about cause of death................0 00... cee eee Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary).....................000. 5 Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003 Act amended in pt3......... 0... cece eee eee 5 Amendment of s 30 (Cause of death certificate) ............. 5 A Bill for An Act to amend the Coroners Act 2003 and the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003 Clause Clause Clause Clause sl 4 s4 Coroners and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2007 The Parliament of Queensland enacts— Part 1 Preliminary 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Coroners and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Act 2007. Part 2 Amendment of Coroners Act 2 Act amended in pt 2 This part amends the Coroners Act 2003. 3 Amendment of s 8 (Reportable death defined) Section 8(3)— insert— '(da) the death happened within 30 days after the person underwent an elective health procedure; or'. 4 Insertion of new s 10B After section 10A— insert— '10B_ Elective health procedures—notification about cause of death '(1)_ This section applies if a person dies within 30 days after the person underwent an elective health procedure. ns RW NY KF OO Po OMNI DWN Nw s5 5 s7 Coroners and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2007 '(2) The doctor who was in charge of the health procedure must, as soon as practicable after the doctor becomes aware of the person's death, give a coroner a written notice stating the doctor's opinion as to the cause of the person's death. Maximum penalty—25 penalty units.'. Clause 5 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) Schedule 2— insert— 'elective health procedure means a health procedure that could be delayed for 24 hours without the death of the person who is to undergo the health procedure being a likely outcome of the delay.'. Part 3 Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration ActClause 6 Act amended in pt 3 This part amends the Births, Deaths And Marriages Registration Act 2003. Clause 7 Amendment of s 30 (Cause of death certificate) (1) Section 30(1)(a)(ii)— renumber as— section 30(1)(a)(iii). (2) Section 30(1)(a)— insert— '@i) for a deceased person who has died in a hospital operated by the State—is the doctor who was nN BWNre 711 on 212326 s7 Coroners and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2007 s7 responsible for the care of the deceased person; > or.