Coroners Act Amendment Act 1972 (Qld)

115 ANNO VICESIMO PRIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 16 of 1972 An Act to Amend The Coroners Act 1958 to 1967 in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 15TH DEcW4BER, 1972] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title and citation . (1) This Act may be cited as the Coroners Act Amendment Act 1972. (2) The Coroners Act of 1958 as amended from time to time is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the CoronersAct1958-1972.

116 Coroners Act Amendment Act 1972, No. 16 2. Commencement of Act. This Act shall come into operation on a date appointed by Proclamation. 3. Amendment of s. 59. Section 59 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word " four " and inserting in its stead the word " three ". 4. New s . 59A. The Principal Act is amended by inserting after section 59 the following section:- " 59A. Copies of reports on post - mortem and other examinations. (1) Where a report has been made to a coroner pursuant to section 18 of this Act as the result of a post-mortem examination or a special examination made by an analyst or pathologist or other qualified person, the coroner or other person having custody of any report so made may, upon the written application of a relative or any other person having, in the opinion of the coroner or other person having custody of the report, a sufficient interest in the cause of death and upon payment of the prescribed fee, furnish to the applicant a copy of the report. (2) Liability at law shall not attach to the Crown or any person by reason of the publication of a report under subsection (1) of this section. (3) In this section " relative " means the husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter or son of the deceased or any other person who stood in loco parentis to the deceased, or to whom the deceased stood in loco parentis." . 5. Amendments relating to currency references . The Principal Act is amended as set forth in the Schedule to this Act. THE SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DECIMAL CURRENCY [s. 5] Provisions to be amended Omit Insert Section 8 (1) (iii) Section 11 Section 12 (1) Section 13 (1) Section 18 (8) Section 19 (3) Section 19 (4) Section 21 (4) Section 22 (1) twenty-five pounds two hundred pounds . . fifty pounds two hundred pounds . . one hundred pounds . . five hundred pounds five hundred pounds five hundred pounds five hundred pounds $50 $400 $100 $400 $200 $1,000 $1,000 $1,000 $1,000

Coroners Act Amendment Act 1972, No. 16 117 THE SCHEDULE- continued AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DECIMAL CURRENCY -Continued Provisions to be amended Omit Section 37 (2) Section 38 (1) Section 38 (2) Section 39 Section 52 Section 53 (2) two hundred pounds . . fifty pounds . . fifty pounds . . fifty pounds . . two hundred pounds . . one hundred pounds Insert s $400 $100 $100 $100 $400 $200