Page 3300 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 September 1994
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Detail Stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (11.41): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move together the amendments circulated in my name.
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
Page 21, lines 4 to 6, clause 25, proposed new section 35, omit the proposed new section, substitute the following proposed new section:
Access to documents etc.
"35. A Coroner may make available to any person with sufficient interest -
(a) any document that the Coroner intends to consider; and
(b) any evidence relevant to the inquest or inquiry to which the Coroner intends to have regard.".
Page 29, line 7, Schedule, proposed amendments of paragraph 34S(2) (b) and subsection 34S(4), after the proposed amendments of subsection 34(3), insert the following amendments:
"Paragraph 34S(2)(b) -
Omit 'the Coroner', substitute 'a Coroner'.
Subsection 34S(4) -
Omit 'the Coroner', substitute 'a Coroner'.".
These amendments pick up a substantive recommendation of the committee concerning the material that is to be made available by a coroner to the family or a person with sufficient interest. The Government agreed with the committee's concerns about the original definition; so we have broadened that to meet the committee's concerns. The amendments also pick up a couple of things that slipped through. Throughout the Bill we have been changing "the Coroner" to "a Coroner" because it is now possible to appoint any of our magistrates to be coroners, instead of simply a single person. I table the explanatory memorandum.
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