Coroners (Reportable Death) Amendment Act 2011 (SA)

South Australia

Coroners (Reportable Death) Amendment Act 2011

An Act to amend the Coroners Act 2003.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1Preliminary1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Coroners (Reportable Death) Amendment Act 2011.

2Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2Amendment of Coroners Act 20033Amendment of section 3 – Interpretation

1. (1)

   Section 3—after the definition of Coroner's Court or Court insert:

   corresponding authorisation, in relation to the body of a dead person, means an authorisation under a corresponding law by a coroner (within the meaning of that corresponding law) that corresponds to an authorisation—

   1. (a)

      for the release of the body of the dead person from the control of the coroner; or

   2. (b)

      for the disposal of human remains in respect of the body of the dead person;

   corresponding law means—

   1. (a)

      the Coroners Act 1997 (Australian Capital Territory);

   2. (b)

      the Coroners Act 2009 (New South Wales);

   3. (c)

      the Coroners Act (Northern Territory);

   4. (d)

      the Coroners Act 2003 (Queensland);

   5. (e)

      the Coroners Act 1995 (Tasmania);

   6. (f)

      the Coroners Act 2008 (Victoria);

   7. (g)

      the Coroners Act 1996 (Western Australia);

2. (2)

   Section 3, definition of reportable death—after "State death" insert:

   (other than a State death to which subsection (2) applies)

3. (3)

   Section 3—after its current contents as amended by this section (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:

   1. (2)

      For the purposes of this Act, the death of a person is not reportable if—

      1. (a)

         the person dies outside of the State; and

      2. (b)

         a coroner under a corresponding law has issued a corresponding authorisation in respect of the body of the dead person.

4Amendment of section 21 – Holding of inquests

Section 21(1)(b)(i)—after "reportable death" insert:

or a death that would, but for section 3(2), have been a reportable death