Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911
Notification of Stillbirth and Neo-Natal Death Regulations
Western Australia
Notification of Stillbirth and Neo-Natal Death Regulations
Contents
1.Citation1
2.Notification of stillbirth or death of neonate1
Schedule
Appendix
Notes
Compilation table6
Western Australia
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911
Notification of Stillbirth and Neo‑Natal Death Regulations
These regulations may be cited as the Notification of Stillbirth and Neo‑Natal Death Regulations 1.
2.Notification of stillbirth or death of neonate
(1)Where a medical practitioner gives a death certificate in relation to any child who died within 28 days of his birth, he shall notify the Chief Health Officer of the fact in the Form No. 1 in the Appendix, within 48 hours of the death certificate being given.
(2)A medical practitioner who contravenes subregulation (1) commits an offence and is liable to a penalty which is not more than $1 000 and not less than —
(a)in the case of a first offence, $100;
(b)in the case of a second offence, $200; and
(c)in the case of a third or subsequent offence, $500.
[Regulation 2 amended: Gazette 29 Jun 1984 p. 1782; 23 Dec 1988 p. 4974; 10 Jan 2017 p. 297.]
Form No. 1
Western Australia
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911
STILLBIRTH AND NEO-NATAL DEATH NOTIFICATION
To Chief Health Officer
Name of Mother ........................... Home Address .......................... Age .............
Place of Birth .........................................................................................................
Gestation Period ...................... Birth Weight ...................... Sex of Foetus ..........
Single/Plural Birth ................................................ Time of Birth .........................
Date of Birth ............................... Date of Death (if Neo‑Natal) ...........................
NOTE: Neo‑Natal death for the purpose of this report includes death within 28 days of birth.
Please indicate with a tick whichever is applicable.
1. — General Health of Mother
Tuberculosis ........................................Diseases of the blood ..........................
Rheumatic Fever and sequelae ............Diabetes ...............................................
Other Cardiac Disease .........................Tumours of uterus and adnexa ............
Essential hypertension .........................Mental disorders ..................................
Chronic Nephritis ................................
2. — Acute Infectious Disease of Mother
Rubella ................................................Other virus disease ..............................
Measles ................................................Other acute infective disease ..............
Mumps .................................................(State week of pregnancy in which
Influenza ..............................................onset occurred) ..............................
3. — Maternal Disease of Pregnancy
Hyperemesis ........................................Placenta Praevia ..................................
Pre‑eclampsia ......................................Other Antepartum Haemorrhage
Eclampsia ............................................Pyelonephritis ................................
Hydramnios .........................................
4. — Abnormal Duration of Labour
Duration over 48 hours .......................
5. — Abnormality of Presentation
Persistent occipito‑posterior ...............Face and brow .....................................
Uncomplicated breech ........................Transverse and oblique .......................
Complicated breech ............................
6. — Abnormality of Pelvis
Contracted pelvis .................................
7. — Accidents of Labour
Rupture of uterus..................................Failed forceps .....................................
8. — Labour
(a)Normal .........................................(c)Instrumental .................................
(b)Manipulative — Forceps delivery ..........................
External version before labour ....Embryoctomy and craniotomy ....
Surgical induction .......................
Caesarean section ........................
Version in labour .........................
9. — Abnormality of Foetus
Congenital malformation ....................Foetal disease due to maternal
Erythroblastosis foetalis......................disease ............................................
Macerated foetus.................................(State disease, see Sect. 1, 2 and 3
above.)
10. — Abnormalities of Placenta and Cord
Manual removal ...................................Other ...................................................
Prolapse and presentation ....................
11. — Neo‑Natal Complications
Intracranial and spinal injury at birth ....Other birth injury ................................
Post‑natal asphyxia and atelectasis .....
12. — Other Disease Peculiar to Early Pregnancy
Erythroblastosis ...................................Other ...................................................
Haemorrhagic disease of new born .....
13. — Principal Pre‑Medication
Morphine .............................................Pethidine .............................................
14. — Principal Anaesthetics
Chloroform ..........................................Cyclopropane ......................................
Ether ....................................................Ethylene ..............................................
Trilene .................................................Intravenous agents —
Ethyl chloride ......................................Pentothal, Evipan ...........................
Nitrous oxide .......................................Relaxing Agents ............................
Other Remarks
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Date ..............................................
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Signature of Medical Practitioner.
[Appendix amended: Gazette 30 Jun 2003 p. 2620; 10 Jan 2017 p. 297.]
1This is a compilation of the Notification of Stillbirth and Neo-Natal Death Regulations and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.
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Citation |
Gazettal |
Commencement |
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Notification of Stillbirth and Neo‑Natal Death Regulations |
15 Apr 1955 p. 712‑14 |
15 Apr 1955 |
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Health Legislation Amendment Regulations 1984 r. 4 |
29 Jun 1984 p. 1780-4 |
1 Jul 1984 (see r. 2) |
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Health (Offences and Penalties) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1988 Pt. 16 |
23 Dec 1988 p. 4970‑5 |
23 Dec 1988 |
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Equality of Status Subsidiary Legislation Amendment Regulations 2003 Pt. 29 |
30 Jun 2003 p. 2581‑638 |
1 Jul 2003 (see r. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 2003 p. 2579) |
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Reprint 1: The Notification of Stillbirth and Neo‑Natal Death Regulations as at 10 Oct 2003 (includes amendments listed above) |
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Health Regulations Amendment (Public Health) Regulations 2016 Pt. 28 |
10 Jan 2017 p. 237‑308 |
24 Jan 2017 (see r. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Jan 2017 p. 165) |
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