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South Australia
Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment
Bill 2010
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Coroners
Act 2003.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Coroners
Act 2003
3Amendment of
section 25—Findings on inquests
Schedule 1—Transitional
provisions
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment
Act 2010.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Coroners
Act 2003
3—Amendment
of section 25—Findings on inquests
(1) Section 25(2)—delete subsection (2) and
substitute:
(2) The Court may add to its findings any recommendation that, in the
opinion of the Court—
(a) might prevent, or reduce the likelihood of, a recurrence of an event
similar to the event that was the subject of the inquest; or
(b) is appropriate in the circumstances (even if the recommendation
relates to a matter that was not material to the event the subject of the
inquest).
(2) Section 25(5)—delete "6" and substitute:
3
(3) Section 25—after subsection (5) insert:
(6) The State Coroner
may, at any time after the provision of a report under subsection (5),
request a supplementary report to be prepared by the Minister that addresses any
matter that the State Coroner considers necessary arising out of the
report.
(7) If the State Coroner makes a request under
subsection (6), the
Minister to whom the request was made must, within 8 sitting days of the
expiration of 3 months after receiving the request—
(a) cause a supplementary report to be laid before each House of
Parliament addressing the matters requested to be addressed by the State
Coroner; and
(b) forward a copy of the supplementary report to the State
Coroner.
Schedule 1—Transitional
provisions
The amendments to section 25 of the Coroners
Act 2003 affected by
section 3 apply
in relation to any inquest completed after the commencement of
section 3 (whether
the event the subject of the inquest occurred before or after that
commencement).