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Select Committee Coroners Bill, 1925 debate -
Thursday, 29 Apr 1926

SECTION 18.

I move:—

New Section, After the preceding section to add a new section as follows:—

18.—The Minister for Justice may make rules for regulating the practice and procedure at or in connection with inquests and post-mortem examinations and, in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision), such rules may provide—

(a) as to the procedure at in quests held without a jury and at public inquiries held pursuant to section 2 of this Act;

(b) as to the issue by coroners of orders authorising burials;

(c) for empowering a coroner or his deputy to alter the date fixed for the holding of an adjourned inquest within the jurisdiction of the coroner;

(d) as to the procedure to be followed where a coroner decides not to resume an adjourned inquest;

(e) as to the notices to be given and as to the variation or discharge of any recognisances entered into by jurymen or witnesses where the date fixed for an adjourned inquest is altered or where a coroner decides not to resume an adjourned inquest, and

(f) as to the expenses to be paid to witnesses and others.

This section gives power to make rules.

I think it would be advisable to delete paragraph (f).

I am quite agreeable. It is necessary also to delete all after the word " jury " in paragraph (a) and also the word " and " at the end of paragraph (e). These are consequential.

Question—" That Section 18, as amended, stand part of the Bill "—put and agreed to.
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