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CORONERS AMENDMENT BILL 2014 BILL 25 OF 2014

                            FACT SHEET

                    Coroner's Amendment Bill 2014

The Bill amends the Coroners Act 1995 by:
 (i) amending the definition of "reportable death" expressly to
     include some deaths which arise from medical care;
 (ii)    amending the definition of "coroner" by deleting reference
        to obsolete provisions;
 (iii) clarifying the meaning of the terms "inquest" and
       "investigation";
 (iv) rectifying an apparent inconsistency and vagueness in the
      conferral of jurisdiction to hold an inquest in differing
      circumstances;
 (v) repealing section 28(1)(f) on the basis that a coroner does
     not have jurisdiction to make findings of fault;
 (vi) replacing references to "the Crown" in section 60, 61, 62
      and 63 with "the Director of Public Prosecutions" properly
      to express the role that the DPP has in the Coronial Court
      processes.




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