Anatomy Act Amendment Act 1971 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANATOMY.

No. 7 a 1971.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section twenty of

the Anatomy Act, 1930-1946.

[Assented to 13th September, 1971.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Anatomy and citation.

Act Amendment Act, 1971.

Reprinted as

(2) In this Act the Anatomy Act, 1930-1946 is

approved for

reprint.

referred to as the principal Act. 18th March,

No. 7.] Anatomy. [1971.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Anatomy Act, 1930-1971.

S. 20

repealed and 2. Section 20 of the principal Act is repealed and

re-enacted. re-enacted, as follows-

Post mortem

examinations	20. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to
not pro-

hibited. extend to or prohibit

(a)	any post mortem examination of any human body required or directed to be made by any competent legal authority;
(b)	any post mortem examination of any human body made by a medical practitioner for the purpose of ascertaining by actual inspection the cause or extent of disease; or
(c)	the removal of any tissue from ahuman body for grafting within the

meaning of the Tissue Grafting and Processing Act, 1956-1966 as amended from time to time. .