Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
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REGULATION UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1941.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over
the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive
Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the
Dated this fourteenth day of October , 1942.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Air.
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Amendment of the Air Force Regulations.
After regulation 632a of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
“632b.—(1.) To the intent that any necessary preventive medical measures may be taken to safeguard the health of members of the Air Force, whenever any member dies in any air-force hospital or other establishment or while on war service in circumstances permitting the issue of a medical certificate of death from natural causes, but it appears to the Director of Medical Services, the Deputy Director of Medical Services, the Principal Medical Officer of any command, area or group, or the Commanding Officer of an air-force hospital that the cause of death of the member has not been satisfactorily diagnosed and that it is desirable or expedient that further investigation into the cause of the death should be made, any such officer may arrange for a legally qualified medical practitioner, whether an officer of the Air Force or not, to perform a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased member, either with or without an analysis of the contents of the stomach or other viscera or intestines.
* Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 52 and 109; 1929, Nos. 75 and 114; 1930, Nos. 77, 94 and 135; 1931, Nos. 3, 78 and 115; 1932, Nos. 9, 63 and 133; 1933, Nos. 16, 46, 58, 82, 89 and 117; 1934, Nos. 25, 51, 74, 81, 122 and 125; 1935, Nos. 32 and 98; 1936, No. 17; 1937, No. 21; 1938, Nos. 12, 13, 22, 48, 77, 97 and 120; 1939, Nos. 21, 64 and 142; 1940, Nos. 31, 53, 75, 114, 125, 140, 220, 241 and 279; 1941, Nos. 68, 106, 137, 181 and 228; and 1942, Nos. 29, and 158, 232, 254, 346, 383, 416 and Sixty-Second amendment.
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(2.) Whenever a post-mortem examination is arranged pursuant to the provisions of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, the body of the deceased member of which the post-mortem examination is to be made may, unless the officer arranging for that examination otherwise directs, be transferred to the air-force or departmental hospital, or to the mortuary of the public hospital, nearest of access.
(3.) A person or authority shall not refuse to receive into the mortuary of any public hospital the body of any deceased member taken to that mortuary, or refuse to permit any legally qualified medical practitioner to perform a post-mortem examination or analysis the performance of which is arranged, pursuant to this regulation.”
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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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