Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 242A

242A .         CEO to notify Ombudsman of certain deaths of children

        (1)         In this section —

        Commissioner has the meaning given in the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971 section 4;

        investigable death has the meaning given in the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971 section 19A.

        (2)         The CEO must give the Commissioner written notice of any investigable death within 14 days after the date on which the Coroner notifies the CEO of the death.

        (3)         If requested in writing by the Commissioner to do so, the CEO must give the Commissioner —

            (a)         any information in relation to the death of a child that has not been notified under subsection (2) that the Commissioner requires for the purpose of enabling the Commissioner to decide whether the death is an investigable death; and

            (b)         if the CEO is of the opinion the death is not an investigable death, reasons for the opinion.

        [Section 242A inserted by No. 10 of 2009 s. 11.]