BILL NO. 159
(as introduced)
2nd Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
68 Elizabeth II, 2019
Private Member's Bill
Fatality Investigations Act
(amended)
Tammy Martin
Cape Breton Centre
First Reading: September 26, 2019
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Note
This Bill requires a physician to notify a medical examiner or investigator if a person the physician is attending dies and there is reason to believe that the person was recently in a health-care facility or in the custody of an institution.
An Act to Amend Chapter 31
of the Acts of 2001,
the Fatality Investigations Act
1 Chapter 31 of the Acts of 2001, the Fatality Investigations Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 11 the following Section:
- 11A Where a person dies and there is reason to believe that within the ninety days before that person's death that person was
(a) in a health-care facility and the person died, directly or indirectly, as a result of a circumstance referred to in subsection 10(1);
(b) detained or in custody in a correctional institution such as a jail, penitentiary, guard room, remand centre, detention centre, youth facility, lock-up or any other place where a person is in custody or detention;
(c) an inmate in a hospital or a facility as defined in the Hospitals Act;
(d) in an institution designated in the regulations;
(e) in the custody of the Minister of Community Services pursuant to the Children and Family Services Act;
(f) detained by or in the custody of a peace officer; or
(g) the subject of the use of force by a peace officer while on duty,
the physician attending that person at the time of that person's death shall immediately notify a medical examiner or investigator.
2 Clause 41(1)(g) of Chapter 31 is amended by adding "or 11A" immediately after "11" in the second line.
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