Coroners Act 1962
Optional power to hold inquest and duty to notify coroner.
18.—(1) Where a coroner is informed that the body of a deceased person is lying within his district and that a medical certificate of the cause of death is not procurable F38[or such a certificate is not, in the opinion of the coroner, completed in a satisfactory manner to facilitate the registration of the death in accordance with the Act of 2004], he may inquire into the circumstances of the death of that person and, if he is unable to ascertain the cause of death, may, if he so thinks proper, hold an inquest in relation to the death.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any case to which section 17 of this Act applies.
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Annotations
Amendments:
F38
Inserted (16.09/2019) by Coroners (Amendment) Act 2019 (29/2019), s. 11, S.I. No. 448 of 2019.
F39
Repealed (16.09.2019) by Coroners (Amendment) Act 2019 (29/2019), s. 39(c), S.I. No. 448 of 2019.
Modifications (not altering text):
C8
Term “registered medical practitioner” construed (3.07.2008) by Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (25/2007), s. 108(1), S.I. No. 231 of 2008.
Construction of references to registered medical practitioner and Medical Council, etc
108. —(1) Every reference to a registered medical practitioner contained in any enactment or any statutory instrument shall be construed as a reference to a registered medical practitioner within the meaning of section 2.
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