Victorian Numbered Regulations

CORONERS REGULATIONS 2009 (SR NO 120 OF 2009) - REG 7

    (1)     For the purposes of paragraph (l) of the definition of person placed in custody or care in section 3(1) of the Act, a prescribed person or a prescribed class of person is—

        (a)     a person held in detention in Victoria by an authorised person under the law of the Commonwealth or another jurisdiction; or

        (b)     a person in Victoria who an authorised person is attempting to take into custody or who is dying from injuries sustained when an authorised person attempted to take the person into custody; or

        (c)     a person who is dying from an injury incurred while—

              (i)     in the care, control or custody of an authorised person; and

              (ii)     in detention in Victoria under the law of the Commonwealth or another jurisdiction.

    (2)     In this regulation and regulation 8, authorised person means a person authorised to—

        (a)     take a person into custody in Victoria; and

        (b)     keep a person in custody in Victoria—

under the law of—

        (c)     the Commonwealth; or

        (d)     another jurisdiction and Victoria.