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South Australia
Statutes Amendment (Death Certificates)
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Act 1996 and the Cremation Act 2000.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registration Act 1996
3 Amendment of section
4—Definitions
4 Amendment of section 36—Notification of deaths by
doctors
Part 3—Amendment of Cremation
Act 2000
5 Amendment of section
4—Interpretation
6 Amendment of section 6—Issue of cremation
permit
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Statutes Amendment (Death Certificates)
Act 2008.
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 Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Act 1996
3—Amendment of
section 4—Definitions
Section 4, definition of doctor—delete the definition
and substitute:
doctor means a person who is registered as a medical
practitioner under the law of this State;
4—Amendment of
section 36—Notification of deaths by doctors
(1) Section 36(3)—delete "the doctor must also give" and
substitute:
a doctor who was responsible for the person's medical care immediately
before death, or who examines the body of the deceased person after death, must
give
(2) Section 36—after subsection (4) insert:
(5) A doctor must not give a certificate under this section relating to
the death of a person if—
(a) the person died in a hospital, nursing home or aged care facility in
which the doctor has a proprietary or pecuniary interest; or
(b) the doctor knows that—
(i) he or she has a pecuniary interest in the death of the person under a
policy of life insurance; or
(ii) he or she is entitled in expectancy of the death of the person to any
real or personal property.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 4 years.
Part 3—Amendment
of Cremation
Act 2000
5—Amendment of
section 4—Interpretation
Section 4, definition of doctor—delete the definition
and substitute:
doctor means a person who is registered as a medical
practitioner under the law of this State;
6—Amendment of
section 6—Issue of cremation permit
Section 6(5)—delete subsection (5) and substitute:
(5) A doctor must not give a certificate under this section relating to
the death of a person if—
(a) the person died in a hospital, nursing home or aged care facility in
which the doctor has a proprietary or pecuniary interest; or
(b) the doctor knows that—
(i) he or she has a pecuniary interest in the death of the person under a
policy of life insurance; or
(ii) he or she is entitled in expectancy of the death of the person to any
real or personal property.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 4 years.