C42

Prospective affecting provision: section amended by Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 (1/2024), s. 266(j)(i), (ii), not commenced as of date of revision.

43.—Whenever a jury is required for an inquest at any time and place, F103[the coroner shall so inform a member of the Garda Síochána or, where there is a F104[relevant Police Ombudsman investigation] concerning the death of the person in relation to whose death the inquest is to be held, F104[a designated officer of the Police Ombudsman], and the member or designated officer, as the case may be, shall assemble] not less than six and not more than twelve persons qualified to be jurors at the inquest at such time and place and may, if he thinks it necessary, serve summonses in the prescribed form to ensure their attendance.

C43

Application of section restricted (22.07.2022) by Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (19/2022), s. 50(2)-(3), S.I. No. 370 of 2022.

Application of Act of 1962 and Act of 1976

50. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), this Part is without prejudice to the application of the Act of 1962 to a Stardust inquest.

(2) In the case of a Stardust inquest, the reference to “in accordance with the provisions of this Act” in section 24 of the Act of 1962 shall be read as a reference to “in accordance with the provisions of this Act and Part 8 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022”.

(3) The following provisions of the Act of 1962 shall not apply in respect of a Stardust inquest:

(a) section 36, insofar as that section relates to jurors;

(b) section 37(1);

(c) section 39;

(d) section 40;

(e) section 43;

(f) section 44;

(g) subsections (1) (b) and (2) of section 56, insofar as they relate to jurors;

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