Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person engaged
in research relating to any matter necessitating the use of or reference to
any information, record, report, statement, memorandum or particulars referred
to in section 336A(4) who in any way, directly or indirectly, discloses or
divulges any information obtained by him or her therefrom, except as may be
strictly essential in or for carrying out the research, commits an offence.
(2) A member of the
Committee, or any person employed by or acting with the instructions or under
the authority of the Committee, except an investigator appointed under
section 340AJ acting in the course of his or her duties, who interviews or in
any way communicates with any person referred to in any report of the
investigator or any relative of that person commits an offence, unless the
consent in writing of the medical practitioner, nurse or midwife who was
attending the child at the time of the occurrence of the stillbirth or death
being investigated is first obtained.
[Section 340AM inserted: No. 47 of 1978 s. 34;
amended: No. 80 of 1987 s. 161; No. 19 of 2016 s. 66.]
[ 340AN. Deleted: No. 19 of 2016 s. 67.]
[Heading inserted: No. 47 of 1978 s. 36.]