Western Australian Current Acts

HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1911 - SECT 340B

340B .         Constitution and offices of Committee

        (1)         For the purposes of this Part a body to be called the “Maternal Mortality Committee” and having the functions prescribed by this Part shall be constituted as provided in this section.

        (2)         The Committee is to consist of 9 members appointed by the Minister, made up as follows —

            (a)         one is to be the Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Western Australia, who is to be Chairperson of the Committee;

            (b)         one is to be a medical practitioner specialising in obstetrics, nominated by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (W.A. Branch);

            (c)         5 are to be medical practitioners, of whom —

                  (i)         2 are to be general medical practitioners practising in the metropolitan area, nominated by the Australian Medical Association (WA) Incorporated; and

                  (ii)         2 are to be general medical practitioners having not less than 5 years’ practice outside the metropolitan area, nominated by the Australian Medical Association (WA) Incorporated; and

                  (iii)         one is to be nominated by the Chief Health Officer;

            (d)         2 are to be midwives, nominated by the Chief Health Officer.

        [Section 340B inserted: No. 23 of 1960 s. 4; amended: No. 63 of 1981 s. 4; No. 30 of 1982 s. 14; No. 27 of 1992 s. 84; No. 10 of 1998 s. 39(5); No. 24 of 2000 s. 16(3); No. 28 of 2006 s. 251; No. 8 of 2009 s. 71(4); No. 19 of 2016 s. 42.]