Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · s 67

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s 67Reporting of assessable deaths

(1)

A person in charge of a private healthcare facility or service shall ensure that every medical practitioner or dental practitioner who administers any anesthesia or anesthetic or medical or surgical

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procedure or uses any medical technology on a patient whose death is an assessable death shall, as soon as practicable, but in any case not more than 72 hours after he learns of the occurrence of that death, notify the Director General of the name of the patient, his opinion as to the cause of the death, and his own name and address.

(2)

On receipt of any notification under subsection (1), the

Director General shall forthwith in writing forward the information to the Chairman of a Committee.