Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Coroners Act 2008 - SECT 5

Reviewable death

5. Reviewable death



(1) In this Act, the death of a child (the deceased child) is a reviewable
death if the deceased child is the second or subsequent child of the deceased
child's parent to have died and one of the following applies-

   (a)  the body is in Victoria; or

   (b)  the death occurred in Victoria; or

   (c)  the cause of the death occurred in Victoria; or

   (d)  the child ordinarily resided in Victoria at the time of death.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a death of a deceased child is not a reviewable
death if-

   (a)  the death occurs in a hospital; and

   (b)  the child was born at a hospital and had always been an in-patient of
        a hospital; and

   (c)  the death is not a reportable death.

(3) In this section-

hospital means a public hospital, a public health service, a denominational
hospital or a private hospital within the meaning of the
Health Services Act 1988;

in-patient of a hospital includes a child whose only period spent outside a
hospital was during a transfer from one hospital to another, by whatever
means. __________________