Coroners Regulation 1998

Queensland Coroners Act 1958 CORONERS REGULATION 1998 Reprinted as in force on 4 December 1998 (regulation not amended up to this date) Reprint No. 1 * This reprint is prepared by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel Warning—This reprint is not an authorised copy * Minor differences in style between this reprint and another reprint with the same number are due to the conversion to another software program. The content has not changed.

Information about this reprint This regulation is reprinted as at 4 December 1998. Minor editorial changes allowed under the provisions of the Reprints Act 1992 have been made to use aspects of format and printing style consistent with current drafting practice (s 35). See endnotes for information about when provisions commenced.

Queensland CORONERS REGULATION 1998 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Commencement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 Additional things that must be done before permission and certificate may be signed—Act s 23A(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 Particulars register must contain—Act, s 23F(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PARTICULARS OF CREMATION FOR REGISTER ENDNOTES 1 Index to endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Date to which amendments incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 List of legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

s1 3 s4 Coroners Regulation 1998 CORONERS REGULATION 1998 [reprinted as in force on 4 December 1998] 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Coroners Regulation 1998 . 2 Commencement This regulation commences on 1 December 1998. 3 Additional things that must be done before permission and certificate may be signed—Act s 23A(2) (1) A person authorised to sign a permission and certificate must not sign the permission and certificate unless 1 — (a) the person has made an external physical examination of the body of the deceased person; and (b) if the person is relying on a medical certificate mentioned in section 23A(2)(a)(i) of the Act—the person has seen a statement about the deceased person, in the approved form, from the medical practitioner who personally attended the deceased person. (2) The approved form must include provision for information to be given about whether the body of the deceased person contains or did contain a cardiac pacemaker or radioactive implant. 4 Particulars register must contain—Act, s 23F(3) The particulars the register must contain of each cremation at the crematorium are in the schedule. 1 See the Act, section 23A (Conditions of cremation) for further things that must be done before a certificate and permission to cremate may be signed.

4 Coroners Regulation 1998 SCHEDULE PARTICULARS OF CREMATION FOR REGISTER section 4 1. The following particulars of the deceased, to the extent the particulars are given to the officer in charge of the crematorium— (a) name; (b) age; (c) date and place of death; (d) usual or last known place of residence. 2. Cremation date. 3. Date of permission and certificate to cremate. 4. Any written directions, in the approved form, of the applicant for permission to cremate for dealing with the ashes remaining after cremation, that accompanied the permission and certificate to cremate. 5. The following particulars about how the ashes were dealt with— (a) if they were given to someone—the name of the person to whom, and the date on which, they were given; (b) if they were disposed of by interment by the officer in charge of the crematorium—the date and place of interment; (c) if they were dealt with in another way—the date and way they were dealt with. 6. In chronological order, the number of the cremation in the sequence of cremations conducted at the crematorium.

5 Coroners Regulation 1998 ENDNOTES 1 Index to endnotes Page 2 Date to which amendments incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 3 Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 4 List of legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 2 Date to which amendments incorporated This is the reprint date mentioned in the Reprints Act 1992, section 5(c). However, no amendments have commenced operation on or before that day. Future amendments of the Coroners Regulation 1998 may be made in accordance with this reprint under the Reprints Act 1992, section 49. 3 Key Key to abbreviations in list of legislation and annotations Key AIA amd amdt ch def div exp gaz hdg ins lap notfd o in c om orig p para prec pres Explanation = Acts Interpretation Act 1954 = amended = amendment = chapter = definition = division = expires/expired = gazette = heading = inserted = lapsed = notified = order in council = omitted = original = page = paragraph = preceding = present Key prev (prev) proc prov pt pubd R[X] RA reloc renum rep s sch sdiv SIA SIR SL sub unnum Explanation = previous = previously = proclamation = provision = part = published = Reprint No.[X] = Reprints Act 1992 = relocated = renumbered = repealed = section = schedule = subdivision = Statutory Instruments Act 1992 = Statutory Instruments Regulation 1992 = subordinate legislation = substituted = unnumbered

6 Coroners Regulation 1998 4 List of legislation Coroners Regulation 1998 SL No. 304 made by the Governor in Council on 19 November 1998 notfd gaz 20 November 1998 pp 1073–4 ss 1–2 commenced on date of notification remaining provisions commenced 1 December 1998 (see s 2) exp 1 September 2009 (see SIA s 54) © State of Queensland 2002