Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941.*
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 seventh day of August, 1942.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for the Army.
Amendment of the Australian Military Regulations.
After regulation 437 of the Australian Military Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
“437a.—(1) To the intent that any necessary preventive medical measures may be taken to safeguard the health of members of the Military Forces, whenever any member of those Forces dies in camp or in any military 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-General of Medical Services, a Deputy Director of Medical Services, an Assistant Director of Medical Services or to the Commanding Officer of a General Hospital, Casualty Clearing Station or a Field Ambulance 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 Australian Medical Corps 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.
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Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1927, No. 149, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 23, 28 and 126; 1920, No. 123; 1930, Nos. 20, 67 and 92; 1931, No. 13; 1932, Nos. 80, 87 and 125; 1933, Nos. 49 and 77; 1934, Nos. 26 and 80; 1935, Nos. 99 and 109; 1936, Nos. 21, 44 and 100; 1937, No. 45; 1938, Nos. 75, 90 and 93; 1939, Nos. 31, 51, 58, 115, 123, 134, 160 and 173; 1940, Nos. 2, 16, 29, 59, 150, 183, 184, 185, 186, 199, 237, 252, 272 and 273; 1941, Nos. 3, 4, 14, 43, 135, 153, 155, 205, 245, 246, 260 and 311; and 1942, Nos. 35, 59, 60, 85, 114, 166, 179, 211, 231 and 269.
3155.—Price 3d. 20/30.4.1942.
(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 military 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.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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