3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

born alive means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a viable foetus in which, after that expulsion or extraction, the heart was beating;

[Section 3 Amended by No. 32 of 2010, s. 6, Applied:04 Nov 2010] child death means the death of a person who has not attained the age of 18 years;

[Section 3 Amended by No. 32 of 2010, s. 6, Applied:04 Nov 2010] committee means a committee established under section 9 ;

Council means the Council of Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity established by section 4 ;

employee means a person whose services are made available to the Council under section 10 (a) or (b) ;

function includes duty;

[Section 3 Amended by No. 32 of 2010, s. 6, Applied:04 Nov 2010] information means any information –

(a) in, or derived from, a document; or

(b) provided orally;

[Section 3 Amended by No. 40 of 2005, s. 4, Applied:15 Sep 2005]

[Section 3 Amended by No. 40 of 2005, s. 4, Applied:15 Sep 2005] late maternal death means the death of a woman more than 42 days but less than one year after the cessation of pregnancy –

(a) resulting from an obstetric cause or another cause aggravated by an obstetric cause; and