Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Executive
Director may, from time to time, with the approval of the Minister, make any
agreement, and from time to time revoke or vary the same, with any person in
charge of any school of anatomy established under the laws of any other State
of Australia for the despatch to such school of anatomy for anatomical
examination of bodies of deceased persons from the State of Western Australia
and for the regulation of the conditions and manner under and in which any
such bodies should be despatched or transported: Provided that every such
agreement shall, as well as including any other conditions required by the
Executive Director to be included therein, include a provision by which the
person in charge of any such school of anatomy shall agree that he, the person
in charge of any such school of anatomy, shall make provision that such body,
after undergoing anatomical examination, be decently interred in consecrated
ground if so desired by the senior next of kin or in some public burying
ground in use for persons of that religious persuasion to which the deceased
person whose body was so received belonged, or be cremated, and that a
certificate of the interment or cremation of such body shall be transmitted to
the Executive Director within 12 weeks after the day on which such body
was received for examination as aforesaid.
(2) It shall be lawful
for the Executive Director or any person authorised by him in that behalf to
receive bodies for despatch and to despatch such bodies in pursuance of any
agreement made under subsection (1) to any such school of anatomy:
Provided that a certificate or record such as is mentioned in section 12
is delivered together with the body to the Executive Director or to the person
receiving the body.
(3) In shall be lawful
for any person who has power under this Act to permit, cause or direct the
body of any deceased person to undergo anatomical examination at some
authorised school of anatomy, to permit, cause or direct such body to be
delivered to the Executive Director or to any person authorised by the
Executive Director to receive such bodies for despatch to any school of
anatomy pursuant to any agreement made under subsection (1): Provided
that any such body shall be delivered in such manner and under such conditions
as the Executive Director shall direct.
[Section 10A inserted by No. 20 of 1946
s. 3; amended by No. 28 of 1984 s. 5; No. 40 of 1998
s. 7(2); No. 28 of 2003 s. 8.]