AI-assisted research summary: Hospitals and facilities that treat a gunshot or stab wound must report certain details to local police, and the report must be made orally by a prescribed person as soon as reasonably practicable without disrupting treatment.
1 GUNSHOT AND STAB WOUNDS MANDATORY REPORTING c G-9.1 The Gunshot and Stab Wounds Mandatory Reporting Act being Chapter G‑9.1 of The Statutes of Saskatchewan, 2007 (effective September 1, 2007) as amended by the Statutes of Saskatchewan 2017, c P‑30.3. NOTE: This consolidation is not official and is subject to House amendments and Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel changes to Separate Chapters that may be incorporated up until the publication of the annual bound volume. Amendments have been incorporated for convenience of reference and the official Statutes and Regulations should be consulted for all purposes of interpretation and application of the law. In order to preserve the integrity of the official Statutes and Regulations, errors that may have appeared are reproduced in this consolidation. 2 GUNSHOT AND STAB c G-9.1 WOUNDS MANDATORY REPORTING Table of Contents 1 Short title 2 Interpretation 3 Mandatory disclosure 4 Other obligations not affected 5 Immunity 6 Non‑application of Act 7 Regulations 8 Coming into force 3 GUNSHOT AND STAB WOUNDS MANDATORY REPORTING c G-9.1 CHAPTER G-9.1 An Act respecting the Mandatory Reporting of Gunshot and Stab Wounds Short title 1 This Act may be cited as The Gunshot and Stab Wounds Mandatory Reporting Act. Interpretation 2 In this Act: (a) “facility” means a facility prescribed in the regulations; (b) “hospital’’ means a care facility that falls within the category of “hospital” designated pursuant to The Provincial Health Authority Act; (c) “local police service” means a police service or regional police service as defined in The Police Act, 1990 or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment responsible for providing police services to the area in which the hospital or facility is located; (d) “minister” means the member of the Executive Council to whom for the time being the administration of this Act is assigned; (e) “prescribed” means prescribed in the regulations; (e.1) “provincial health authority” means the provincial health authority continued pursuant to The Provincial Health Authority Act; (f) Repealed. 2017, c P‑30.3, s 11‑6. 2007, c G‑9.1, s 2; 2017, c P‑30.3, s 11‑6. Mandatory disclosure 3(1) Every hospital or facility that treats an individual for a gunshot or stab wound shall disclose the following to the local police service: (a) the fact that an individual is being treated, or has been treated, for a gunshot or stab wound; (b) the individual’s name, if known; (c) the name and location of the hospital or facility. (2) The disclosure required pursuant to subsection (1) must be made orally by a prescribed person as soon as it is reasonably practicable to do so without interfering with the individual’s treatment or disrupting the regular activities of the hospital or facility. 2007, c G‑9.1, s 3. 4 GUNSHOT AND STAB c G-9.1 WOUNDS MANDATORY REPORTING Other obligations not affected 4 Nothing in this Act prevents a hospital or facility from disclosing information to a local police service that the hospital or facility, as the case may be, is otherwise by law permitted or authorized to disclose. 2007, c G‑9.1, s 4. Immunity 5 No action or other proceeding lies or shall be instituted against the provincial health authority, a hospital, a facility, a director, officer or employee of a regional health authority, hospital or facility or a health care practitioner if that person is acting pursuant to the authority of this Act or the regulations, for anything in good faith done, caused, permitted or authorized to be done, attempted to be done or omitted to be done pursuant to or in the exercise or supposed exercise of any power conferred by this Act or the regulations or in the carrying out or supposed carrying out of any responsibility imposed by this Act or the regulations. 2007, c G‑9.1, s 5; 2017, c P‑30.3, s 11. Non-application of Act 6 All or any portion of any prescribed provision of this Act does not apply: (a) to any prescribed person or any prescribed class of persons; or (b) in any prescribed circumstance. 2007, c G‑9.1, s 6. Regulations 7 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations: (a) defining, enlarging or restricting the meaning of any word or expression used in this Act but not defined in this Act; (b) prescribing facilities, or classes of facilities, for the purposes of this Act; (c) respecting the manner and timing of disclosure, including prescribing: (i) the person or class of persons responsible for making the disclosure on behalf of a hospital or facility; and (ii) any additional requirements; (d) exempting any person or any class of persons from all or any portion of any provision of this Act, and prescribing any circumstance in which all or any portion of any provision of this Act does not apply; (e) prescribing any matter or thing required or authorized by this Act to be prescribed in the regulations; (f) respecting any other matter or thing the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers necessary to carry out the intent of this Act. 2007, c G‑9.1, s 7. Coming into force 8 This Act comes into force on proclamation. 2007, c G‑9.1, s 8. REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN Printed by the authority of THE QUEEN’S PRINTER Copyright©2017