Anatomy Act Amendment Act 1946 (WA)

No. 20.] Anatomy. [1946.

ANATOMY.

10 y and 11' GEO. VI., No. XX.

No. 20 of 1946.

AN ACT to amend the Anatomy Act, 1930, by amending the definition of "Commissioner" contained in sec- tion two thereof and to empower the Commissioner of Public Health for the time being under the Health Act, 1911-1919, to receive bodies of deceased persons for despatch, and to despatch such bodies, to approved Schools of Anatomy outside the State of Western Australia; and for other purposes incidental thereto.

[Assented to 14th January, 1947.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

Skort title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Anatomy Act Amend- ment Act, 1946, and shall be read as one with the Anatomy Act, 1930 (No. 23 of 1930) hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment 2.

Section two of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word "for" where first occurring in line two of the section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "of Public."

of s. 2.

New section 3.

A section is inserted in the principal Act after section ten as follows :—

Commissioner	10A. (1) The Commissioner may, from time to
agreements

for despatch	time, with the approval of the Minister, make any
of bodies to
approved	agreement, and from time to time revoke or vary
schools of
anatomy	the same, with any person in charge of any school
outside West-
ern Australia.	of anatomy established under the laws of any other State of Australia for the despatch to such school of anatomy for anatomical examination of bodies of deceased persons from the State of Western Ails-

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tralia and for the regulation of the conditions and manner under and in which any such bodies should be despatched or transported: Provided that every such agreement shall, as well as including any other conditions required by the Commissioner to be included therein, include a provision by which the person in charge of any such school of anatomy shall agree that he, the person in charge of any such school of anatomy, shall make provision that such body, after undergoing anatomical examination, be decently interred in consecrated ground if so desired by any surviving husband or wife or any known relative or in some public burying ground in use for persons of that religious persuasion to which the deceased person whose body was so received belonged, or be cremated, and that a certificate of the interment or cremation of such body shall be transmitted to the Commissioner within twelve weeks after the day on which such body was received for examination as aforesaid.

It shall be lawful for the Commissioner or any person authorised by him in that behalf to	may receive
Commissioner
and despatch
bodies in pun
receive bodies for despatch and to despatch such	such agree-
suance of
bodies in pursuance of any agreement made under	ments.
subsection (1) hereof to any such school of anatomy: Provided that a certificate such as is mentioned in section twelve is delivered together with the body to the Commissioner or to the person receiving the body.

(2)

(3) It shall be lawful for any person who has Bodies may

power under this Act to permit, cause or direct the boo leonilmmetr

body of any deceased person to undergo anatomical Zsi:t2rt.,

examination at some authorised school of anatomy, aansatoomolyof

to permit, cause or direct such body to be delivered 'XII=

to the Commissioner or to any person authorised

by the Commissioner to receive such bodies for des-

patch to any school of anatomy pursuant to any

agreement made under subsection (1) hereof: Pro-

vided that any such body shall be delivered in such

manner and under such conditions as the Commis-

sioner shall direct.

4. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be citation of

Principal Act

cited as the Anatomy Act, 19304946. as amended.