Western Australian Current Acts

PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER ACT 1971 - SECT 19B

19B .         Functions as to investigable deaths

        (1)         When the advisory body called the Child Death Review Committee, taken to be established under section 27 of the CCS Act, is abolished, the Commissioner is its successor for the purposes of the State Records Act 2000 section 8 which applies accordingly.

        (2)         The Commissioner, after taking account of any information and reasons given to the Commissioner under the CCS Act section 242A(3), may decide if the death of a child is or is not an investigable death.

        (3)         The Commissioner’s functions in relation to investigable deaths are as follows —

            (a)         to review the circumstances in which and why the deaths occurred;

            (b)         to identify any patterns or trends in relation to the deaths;

            (c)         to make recommendations to any department or authority about ways to prevent or reduce investigable deaths.

        (4)         To enable the Commissioner to perform the functions in subsections (2) and (3), the Commissioner may exercise any power the Commissioner has under Division 3 in order to obtain information relevant to the death of a child.

        (5)         The Commissioner may perform the functions the Commissioner has under this Act to investigate a decision or recommendation made, or an act done or omitted, in or by a department or authority to which this Act applies in the exercise of any power or function if the decision, recommendation, act or omission relates to —

            (a)         a matter of administration; and

            (b)         an investigable death.

        [Section 19B inserted: No. 10 of 2009 s. 7.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 25 of 2022 s. 7.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 25 of 2022 s. 7.]