Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Minister may,
in order to give effect to the purposes of section 336A, appoint not more than
4 medical practitioners to be investigators for such term, at such
remuneration and subject to such conditions of service as the Minister
determines, and is hereby authorised to determine, in the case of each
investigator.
(2) The following
provisions apply to the appointment of investigators under subsection (1)
—
(a) if
one investigator is appointed, he or she must be a specialist in obstetrics or
neonatal paediatrics;
(b) if 2
investigators are appointed, both of them must be specialists in obstetrics or
neonatal paediatrics;
(c) if 3
or 4 investigators are appointed, 2 of them must be specialists in obstetrics
or neonatal paediatrics.
(3) The Minister may
at any time appoint a person having the necessary qualifications to act, and
who shall act, as investigator during the absence of an investigator appointed
under subsection (1), or where through any cause such an investigator is
unable to perform the functions of his or her office, or during a vacancy in
the office of such an investigator.
[Section 340AJ inserted: No. 47 of 1978 s. 34;
amended: No. 80 of 1987 s. 158; No. 19 of 2016 s. 63.]