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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Coroners (Reportable Death) 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 3—Interpretation
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Coroners (Reportable Death) 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 3—Interpretation
(1) Section 3—after the definition of Coroner's Court
or Court insert:
corresponding authorisation, in relation to the body of a
dead person, means an authorisation under a corresponding law by a coroner
(within the meaning of that corresponding law) that corresponds to an
authorisation—
(a) for the release of the body of the dead person from the control of the
coroner; or
(b) for the disposal of human remains in respect of the body of the dead
person;
corresponding law means—
(a) the Coroners Act 1997 (Australian Capital
Territory);
(b) the Coroners Act 2009 (New South Wales);
(c) the Coroners Act (Northern Territory);
(d) the Coroners Act 2003 (Queensland);
(e) the Coroners Act 1995 (Tasmania);
(f) the Coroners Act 2008 (Victoria);
(g) the Coroners Act 1996 (Western Australia);
(2) Section 3, definition of reportable death—after
"State death" insert:
(other than a State death to which subsection (2) applies)
(3) Section 3—after its current contents as amended by this section
(now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:
(2) For the purposes of this Act, the death of a person who is, at the
time of death, ordinarily a resident of the State is not reportable
if—
(a) the person dies outside of the State; and
(b) a coroner under a corresponding law has issued a corresponding
authorisation in respect of the body of the dead person.