In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears ¾

}agency~ has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Public Sector Management Act 1994;

}coroner~ includes the State Coroner;

}coroner's clerk~ means a person referred to in section 12;

}coroner's investigator~ means a person referred to in section 14;

}court~ means the Coroner's Court of Western Australia established under section 5;

}death~ includes suspected death;

}Director of Public Prosecutions~ means the Director of Public Prosecutions appointed under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1991;

}doctor~ means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Act 1894;

}guidelines~ means guidelines issued under section 58;

}inquest~ means a formal hearing by the court;

}investigation~ includes an inquest;

}pathologist~ means a doctor with a prescribed qualification in pathology, or a doctor recognized by a prescribed professional body as a pathologist;

}person held in care~ means ¾

(a) a person under, or escaping from, the control, care or custody of ¾

(i) the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister administering the Child Welfare Act 1947 in its administration;

(ii) the Chief Executive Officer of the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister administering the Prisons Act 1981 in its administration; or

(iii) a member of the Police Force;

(b) a person admitted to a centre under the Alcohol and Drug Authority Act 1974;

(c) a person admitted, or received, into an approved hospital under the Mental Health Act 1962; or

(d) a person detained under the Young Offenders Act 1994;

}post mortem examination~ means an examination of the body of a person who has died, for the purpose of investigating the death;

}prescribed~ means prescribed by regulation;

}reportable death~ means a Western Australian death ¾

(a) that appears to have been unexpected, unnatural or violent or to have resulted, directly or indirectly, from injury;

(b) that occurs during an anaesthetic;

(c) that occurs as a result of an anaesthetic and is not due to natural causes;

(d) that occurs in prescribed circumstances;

(e) of a person who immediately before death was a person held in care;

(f) that appears to have been caused or contributed to while the person was held in care;

(g) that appears to have been caused or contributed to by any action of a member of the Police Force;

(h) of a person whose identity is unknown;

(i) that occurs in Western Australia where the cause of death has not been certified under section 44 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998; or

(j) that occurred outside Western Australia where the cause of death is not certified to by a person who, under the law in force in that place, is a legally qualified medical practitioner;

}senior next of kin~ has the meaning given under section 37 (5);

}State Coroner~ means the person appointed under section 6;

}tissue~ includes an organ or part of the human body or a substance extracted from, or from a part of, the human body;

}Western Australian death~ means a death ¾

(a) that occurred in Western Australia;

(b) where the body is in Western Australia;

(c) the cause of which occurred in Western Australia;

(d) of a person who was ordinarily residing in Western Australia at the time of death; or

(e) of a person who, at the time of death, was in an industry to and in relation to which the Industrial Relations Act 1979 applies due to the operation of section 3 of that Act.

[Section 3 amended by No. 40 of 1998 s.8(2).]