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 336B(6) 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 340BJ 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, dental practitioner, nurse or midwife, or any of
them, attending that person at the time of the occurrence of the death being
investigated is first obtained.
[Section 340BM inserted: No. 47 of 1978 s. 36;
amended: No. 30 of 1982 s. 17; No. 80 of 1987 s. 162; No. 19 of 2016 s. 80.]
[ 340BN. Deleted: No. 19 of 2016 s. 81.]
[Heading amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]