Fatal Accidents Act Amendment Act 1973 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

No. 7 of 1973.

AN ACT to amend the Fatal Accidents Act, 1959.

[Assented to 25th May, 1973.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and 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 Fatal Erretitiatt;7)„.

Accidents Act Amendment Act, 1973.

(2) In this Act the Fatal Accidents Act, 1959 is

referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Fatal Accidents Act, 1959-1973.

Commence-

2. This Act shall come into operation on a date ment.

to be fixed by proclamation.

No. 7.] Fatal Accidents. [1973.

Amendment

to s.	3. Subsection (3) of section 6 of the principal
action and

(Effect of	Act is repealed and re-enacted as follows:
mode of

bringing it.) (3) Where in any action under this Act the question of illegitimacy arises in respect of any relationship, that relationship shall not be taken to have been proved unless paternity had been admitted by or established against the father during the lifetime of the deceased person. .