6Meaning of “reportable death”

6 Meaning of “reportable death”

6 Meaning of “reportable death”

(cf Coroners Act 1980, ss 12B(1)(a)–(g) and 13(1)(a)–(c), (e)–(h) and (2))

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person’s death is a reportable death if the death occurs in any of the following circumstances—

(a) the person died a violent or unnatural death,

(b) the person died a sudden death the cause of which is unknown,

(c) the person died under suspicious or unusual circumstances,

(d) (Repealed)

(e) the person died in circumstances where the person’s death was not the reasonably expected outcome of a health-related procedure carried out in relation to the person,

(f) the person died while in or temporarily absent from a declared mental health facility within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2007 and while the person was a patient at the facility for the purpose of receiving care, treatment or assistance under the Mental Health Act 2007 or the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020.

(2) (Repealed)

(3) In this section—

health-related procedure means a medical, surgical, dental or other health-related procedure (including the administration of an anaesthetic, sedative or other drug), but does not include any procedure of a kind prescribed by the regulations as being an excluded procedure.

s 6: Am 2012 No 24, Sch 1 [2]; 2019 No 10, Sch 1.4[1]; 2020 No 12, Sch 3.5.