Title: Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: lc44

Legislative Council—No 44
As introduced and read a first time, 29 September 2010

Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010

Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
Part 1—Preliminary

Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
Preliminary—Part 1

Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
Part 2—Amendment of Coroners Act 2003

Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
Amendment of Coroners Act 2003—Part 2

Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
Schedule 1—Transitional provisions

Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
Transitional provisions—Schedule 1

South Australia
Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2010
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Coroners Act 2003.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Coroners Act 2003
3	Amendment of section 25—Findings on inquests
Schedule 1—Transitional provisions

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Coroners (Recommendations) Amendment Act 2010.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Coroners Act 2003
3—Amendment of section 25—Findings on inquests
	(1)	Section 25(2)—delete subsection (2) and substitute:
	(2)	The Court may add to its findings any recommendation that, in the opinion of the Court—
	(a)	might prevent, or reduce the likelihood of, a recurrence of an event similar to the event that was the subject of the inquest; or
	(b)	is appropriate in the circumstances (even if the recommendation relates to a matter that was not material to the event the subject of the inquest).
	(2)	Section 25(5)—delete "6" and substitute:
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	(3)	Section 25—after subsection (5) insert:
	(6)	The State Coroner may, at any time after the provision of a report under subsection (5), request a supplementary report to be prepared by the Minister that addresses any matter that the State Coroner considers necessary arising out of the report.
	(7)	If the State Coroner makes a request under subsection (6), the Minister to whom the request was made must, within 8 sitting days of the expiration of 3 months after receiving the request—
	(a)	cause a supplementary report to be laid before each House of Parliament addressing the matters requested to be addressed by the State Coroner; and
	(b)	forward a copy of the supplementary report to the State Coroner.

Schedule 1—Transitional provisions
The amendments to section 25 of the Coroners Act 2003 affected by section 3 apply in relation to any inquest completed after the commencement of section 3 (whether the event the subject of the inquest occurred before or after that commencement).

LC GP 101-B: the Hon Stephen Wade MLC