Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Subject to this Act it
shall be lawful for any executor or other person having lawful possession of
the body of any deceased person, and not being an undertaker or other person
entrusted with the body for the purpose only of interment or cremation, to
permit the body of such deceased person to undergo anatomical examination at
some authorised school of anatomy, unless to the knowledge of such executor or
other person the deceased person has expressed his desire, either in writing
at any time during his life or verbally in the presence of 2 or more witnesses
during the illness whereof he died, that his body after death might not
undergo such examination, or unless the senior next of kin of the deceased
person requires the body to be interred or cremated without such examination.
[Section 9 amended by No. 28 of 2003
s. 6.]