Coroners and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2008 (Qld)

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Queensland

Coroners and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2008

Queensland

Coroners and Other Acts Amendment

Bill 2008

Contents

Part 1

Part 2

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Preliminary

Shorttitle .. 0... eee ee Commencement... . 0.00.5... cece eee eee eee Amendment of Coroners Act 2003

Act amended in pt2........... 000.0002 c eee eee eee Amendment of s 7 (Duty to report deaths).................. Amendment of s 8 (Reportable death defined) .............. Amendment of s 9 (Death in care defined).................. Amendment of s 10 (Death in custody defined).............. Insertion of news 10AA... 1.2... eee 10AA Health care related death defined ...............

Amendment of s 10A (State Coroner to notify children's commissioner of deaths) ........... 0.0.00 e eee eee eee eee

Amendment of s 11 (Deaths to be investigated) ............. Insertion of newS 11A....... 0... eee

11A Reviewing coroner's decision about whether death is areportable death......................0.0.

Amendment of s 12 (Deaths not to be investigated or further investigated)... 0.0... ee eee eee

Amendment of s 13 (Coroner's powers of investigation) ....... Amendment of s 14 (Guidelines and directions for investigations) Amendment of s 16 (Duty to help investigation).............. Insertion of newS 16A.... 0.02... cee ee

16A Tampering with a document or thing relevant to an investigation .................. 0.000.000.0000.

Amendment of s 17 (Disclosure of confidential information to Coroners Court)... 0.0.0... eee eee

N OD DD 10 121414 Coroners and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2008

Contents 18 Insertion of NEWS 117A... 6. eee 16 17A Protection from liability for giving information and other things to coroner................0-0ee eee 16 19 Insertion of news 18A........ 2... ce eee 17 18A Arrangements for and guidelines about assessing suitability of body for Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1979 1... ee eee 17 20 Replacement of s 21 (Observing an autopsy) ............... 18 21 Observing an autopsy .................00.000. 18 21 Amendment of s 22 (Extra medical evidence for autopsy)...... 19 22 Amendment of s 23 (Autopsy testing) ..................00. 20 23 Insertion of new S 238A... 0... eee 20 23A Applying for an order for autopsy testing .......... 20 24 Amendment of s 24 (Removing tissue for autopsy testing) ..... 21 25 Amendment of s 24A (Autopsy certificate).................. 22 26 Amendment of s 25 (Autopsy reports) ..................00. 23 27 Amendment of s 26 (Control of body) ..................00. 24 28 Amendment of s 27 (When inquest must be held)............ 25 29 Amendment of s 28 (When inquest may be held) ............ 25 30 Amendment of s 30 (Applying for inquest to be held).......... 26 31 Amendment of s 32 (Notice of inquest) .................... 27 32 Amendment of s 34 (Pre-inquest conferences) .............. 27 33 Amendment of s 35 (Directions or orders about inquests)...... 28 34 Amendment of s 36 (Right to appear etc.)...............00. 28 35 Amendment of s 41 (Prohibited publications relating to inquests) 29 36 Amendment of s 43 (Excluding persons from inquest)......... 29 37 Amendment of s 45 (Coroner's findings) ................... 29 38 Amendment of s 46 (Coroner's comments) ................. 30 39 Amendment of s 47 (Coroner's comments and findings for deaths in care or custody) ............. 000. e eee ee eee 30 40 Amendment of s 50 (Reopening inquests etc.) .............. 30 41 Insertion of new ss 50A and 50B..............00...0 00 eee 31 50A Reopening inquests on coroner's initiative......... 31 50B Reopening investigations, other than inquests. .... . 31 42 Amendment of s 52 (Documents that can not be accessed) .... 32 43 Amendment of s 53 (Access to investigation documents for research PpurpOSeS) ........ 2... eee 32