Homeโ€บBillsโ€บBill 276

๐Ÿ“œ Coroners Amendment Bill 2004

Assented toLABill 27631 March 2004

The Coroners Amendment Bill 2004 allows the State Coroner to provide deceased individuals' information to DonateWest, a human tissue donation agency, to facilitate potential tissue donation for transplantation. DonateWest must destroy the contact information within two days.

Impact

Families of deceased individuals under the Coroner's jurisdiction are affected, as DonateWest may contact them about tissue donation. This aims to increase tissue donation rates in Western Australia.

Key Changes

["Allows the State Coroner to provide information about deceased individuals to human tissue donation agencies.", "Specifies the information that can be provided (name, age, circumstances of death, next of kin details).", "Requires the human tissue donation agency to destroy the information within 2 days."]

Parliamentary Progress

  1. LA Second Reading MovedLA31 Mar 2004
  2. LA IntroducedLA31 Mar 2004
  3. LA Second Reading AgreedLA16 June 2004
  4. LA Third ReadingLA16 June 2004
  5. LA Consideration in DetailLA16 June 2004
  6. LC Second Reading MovedLC22 June 2004
  7. LC Third ReadingLC27 Aug 2004
  8. LC Second Reading AgreedLC27 Aug 2004
Affected Sectors
healthpublic_sector

Explore WA Government Data

Search the full archive in the free dashboard, or query programmatically via API.

Explore more