Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
- Act 73 of 1995
- Royal Assent 14 November 1995
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 - Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
3A. Meaning of senior next of kin
3B. Determination of senior next of kin of deceased person
4. Common law rules cease to have effect
PART 2 - Coroners
5. Establishment of coronial division
6. Court to comprise a single magistrate or coroner
7. Functions of Chief Magistrate
8. General directions by Chief Magistrate
9. Delegation by Chief Magistrate
10. Appointment, &c., of coroners
11. Oaths to be taken
12. Section 12
13. Delegation by coroner
14. Chief Clerk (Coronial Division)
15. Coroner's associates
16. Coroner's officers
PART 3 - State Forensic Pathologist
17. State Forensic Pathologist
18. Functions and powers of State Forensic Pathologist
18A. Validation of certain appointments
PART 4 - Reporting of deaths
19. Obligation to report death
20. Information to coroner
PART 5 - Investigation of deaths
21. Jurisdiction of coroners to investigate a death
22. Directions by Chief Magistrate
23. Aboriginal remains
24. Jurisdiction of coroner to hold inquest into a death
24A. Jurisdiction of Chief Magistrate to hold inquest into a death
25. Procedure at inquest where person charged with an offence
26. Decision by coroner not to hold an inquest into a death
26A. Decision by coroner to hold an inquest into a workplace death
27. Applications for inquests into a death
28. Findings, &c., of coroner investigating a death
29. Record of investigation
30. Reports on deaths
31. Control of body
32. Certificate of burial
33. Aid to coroners in other places
34. Power to restrict entry to place where death occurred
35. Approval of pathologists or medical practitioners to undertake
autopsies
36. Autopsies
37. Application for autopsy
38. Objections to autopsy
39. Exhumation
PART 6 - Investigation of Fires and Explosions
40. Jurisdiction of coroner to investigate a fire or an explosion
41. Directions by Chief Magistrate
42. Application for investigation into a fire or an explosion
43. Jurisdiction of coroner to hold inquest into a fire or an explosion
44. Decision by coroner not to hold an inquest into a fire or an
explosion
45. Findings, &c., of coroner investigating a fire or an explosion
46. Record of findings and comments
47. Reports on fires or explosions
48. Police to report further information to coroner
49. Restriction of access to fire or explosion area
PART 7 - Conduct of Inquests
50. Two or more deaths or fires and explosions
51. Rules of evidence not applicable
52. Rights of interested persons
53. Powers of coroners at an inquest
53A. Power of coroner to defer provision of information
54. Statements or disclosures made by witnesses at inquest
55. Coroner to hold inquest without a jury
56. Exclusion of persons from inquest
57. Restriction on publication of reports
PART 7A - Review
58. Chief Magistrate may reopen investigation
58A. Supreme Court may order inquest findings void, &c.
PART 8 - Miscellaneous
58B. Information on operation of Act provided to senior next of kin and
other persons with sufficient interest
59. Powers of entry, inspection and possession
59A. Power of police to secure evidence for coroner in an emergency
59B. Disposal, &c., of evidence that cannot be practicably or safely
held
60. Orders for care and control of articles, &c.
61. Orders as to custody, &c., of articles, &c.
62. Variation or revocation of orders as to custody, &c., of
articles, &c.
63. Appeal to Supreme Court from orders as to custody, &c., of
articles, &c.
64. Coroner not required to give evidence in certain cases
65. Obstruction
66. Contempt
67. Protection from legal proceedings
68. Manner of making applications
69. Annual report
69A. Rules of court
70. Regulations
71. Repeal
72. Savings and transitional provisions
72A. Transition from regulations to rules
73. Administration of Act
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