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F1[(1)F2The Lord Chancellor may by rules—
(a)F3made after consultation with the Treasury, make provision with respect to the records, accounts and returns which the Lord Chancellor may require coroners to keep and submit to him and with respect to information to be supplied by coroners;]
(b)F3made after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice regulate the practice and procedure at or in connection with inquests …F4 and, in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions), such rules may contain provisions—
(i)as to the procedure at inquests held with a jury;
(ii)as to the procedure at inquests held without a jury;
(iii)as to the issue by coroners of orders authorising exhumations or burials;
(iv)for empowering a coroner to alter the date fixed for the holding of any adjourned inquest within the jurisdiction of the coroner;
(v)as to the procedure to be followed where a coroner decides not to resume an adjourned inquest;
(vi)as to the notices to be given to 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
(vii)for prescribing forms of verdicts for use at inquests.
F5F1[(2)The Lord Chancellor may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service determine—
(a)the salaries or fees and superannuation to be paid to coroners …F4;
Para. (b) rep. by 1980 NI 6
(c)the allowances payable to witnesses under this Act.]
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