Australian Capital Territory

coroners regulations
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 31 January 1998
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation
	1.	Citation
	2.	Commencement
	3.	Interpretation
	4.	Application
	5.	Specified operations and procedures

Citation
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Coroners Regulations.1
Commencement
2.  These Regulations commence on 1 August 1994.
Interpretation
3.  In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
“Act” means the Coroners Act 1997.
Application
4.  These Regulations apply in relation to a death that occurs on or after 1 August 1994.

Specified operations and procedures
5.  (1)  An operation or procedure specified for the purposes of this regulation is not an operation or procedure for the purpose of paragraph 13 (1) (e) of the Act if the medical practitioner responsible for carrying it out gives a certificate stating that the death has not occurred as a result of that operation or procedure.
(2)  The following operations or procedures are specified for the purposes of this regulation:
	(a)	the giving of an intravenous injection;
	(b)	the giving of an intramuscular injection;
	(c)	intravenous therapy;
	(d)	the insertion of a line or cannula;
	(e)	artificial ventilation;
	(f)	cardiac resuscitation;
	(g)	urethral catheterisation.

NOTES
1.	Subordinate Law No. 28, 1994 (a) (in force under the Coroners Act 1997); made on 20 July 1994; notified in the ACT Gazette on 27 July 1994; commenced on 1 August 1994.
	The Coroners Regulations were amended by the Coroners (Consequential Provisions) Act 1997.  The amendments are incorporated in this reprint.
2.	The Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 (No. 51, 1996) authorises the Parliamentary Counsel in preparing a law for republication, to make certain editorial and other formal amendments in accordance with current legislative drafting practice.  Those amendments make no change in the law.  Amendments made pursuant to that Act do not appear in the Table of Amendments but details may be obtained on request from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
(a)	The Coroners Regulations made on 20 July 1994 under the repealed Coroners Act 1956  were continued in force under the Coroners Act 1997.
Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

R. 3	am. Act No. 58, 1997
R. 5	am. Act No. 58, 1997

Table of Subordinate Laws
Regulation
No.	Date of making	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

					

Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected