Coroners Amendment Act 1983 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

CORONERS.

No. 80 of 1983.

AN ACT to amend the Coroners Act 1920-1982.

[Assented to 22 December 1983.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Coroners =Attn.

Amendment Act 1983.

(2) In this Act the Coroners Act 1920-1982 Is Reprintede d

2 December

referred to as the principal Act.

/980 and

amended by

Act No. 17

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act 011•

may be cited as the Coroners Act 1920-1983.

No. 80.] Coroners. [1983.

Section 11A

Inserted. 2. After section 11 of the principal Act, the

following section is inserted-

Power of	tt 11A. (1) A coroner holding an inquest
coroner to
prohibit

publicati

may, on proper cause shown, make an order

of names

of witnesses

forbidding the publication of the name of any

or persons

referred to

witness or of any person referred to in the

in evidence.

course of the inquest, and may vary or revoke

an order so made.

(2) For the purposes of this section

(a) a name is published if it-

(i)

appears in any newspaper or

any other printed medium;

(ii) is publicly exhibited; or

(iii)  is broadcast by wireless transmission or by television;

and

(b) the publication of any reference or allusion to any witness or other person whose name is, by virtue of an order under subsection (1) of this section, forbidden to be published, shall, if such reference or allusion is intended or is sufficient to disclose the identity of such witness or other person, be deemed to be a publication of his name.

(3) A person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (1) of this section commits an offence.

Penalty: $500 or imprisonment for 6 months

or both. ".