Coroners and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2009 (Qld)

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Queensland

Coroners and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2009

Queensland

Coroners and Other Acts Amendment

Bill 2009

Contents

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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)..............

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

Insertion of neWS17A... 1... eee eee

17A Protection from liability for giving information and other things to coroner.....................00.

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Insertion of newS 18A...... 0... eee eee

18A Arrangements for and guidelines about assessing suitability of body for Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1979 1... ee eee

Replacement of s 21 (Observing an autopsy) ............... 21 Observing an autopsy .................00.000. Amendment of s 22 (Extra medical evidence for autopsy)...... Amendment of s 23 (Autopsy testing) ..................00. Insertion of new S 238A... 0... eee 23A Applying for an order for autopsy testing .......... Amendment of s 24 (Removing tissue for autopsy testing) ..... Amendment of s 24A (Autopsy certificate).................. Amendment of s 25 (Autopsy reports) ..................00. Amendment of s 26 (Control of body) ..................00. Amendment of s 27 (When inquest must be held)............ Amendment of s 28 (When inquest may be held) ............ Amendment of s 30 (Applying for inquest to be held).......... Amendment of s 32 (Notice of inquest) .................... Amendment of s 34 (Pre-inquest conferences) ..............