Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts Upon any death
occurring in any lodging-house, the manager or keeper thereof shall, within 12
hours thereafter, give notice of every such death and the cause thereof and
the circumstances attendant thereon to the Chief Health Officer and to the
nearest coroner; and if there is no coroner residing within 8 km of such
lodging-house, then to the police.
[Section 156, formerly section 133, renumbered as
section 156: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 18 of 1964 s. 13; No. 30 of
1982 s. 4; No. 19 of 2016 s. 99.]