Coroners Amendment Regulations 2019 (WA)

1 February 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 225

JUSTICE

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Coroners Act 1996

Coroners Amendment Regulations 2019

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.   Citation

These regulations are the Coroners Amendment

Regulations 2019.

2.   Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a) regulations 1 and 2— on the day on which these

regulations are published in the Gazette;

(b) the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3. Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Coroners Regulations 1997.

4. Schedule 1 amended

under section 19A(1) of the Coroners Act 1996 that the death was

In Schedule 1 Form 3 delete paragraph 3 and insert:

3.       *Find that —

*The identity of the deceased person was

and that death occurred on / / at

from (state cause of death)

*in the following circumstances

4.       *Decide not to continue to investigate the death having determined

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due to natural causes and was a reportable death solely because it
appears to have been unexpected.

5. *Make no finding as to how the death occuned having determined under section 25(1A)(b) of the Coroners Act 1996 that there is no public interest to be served in making such a finding.

R. KENNEDY, Clerk of the Executive Council.