Introductory Text
PART I GENERAL
1.Citation and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Revocations and application
PART II AVAILABILITY OF CORONER
4.Coroner to be available at all times
PART III POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS
5.Delay in making post-mortem to be avoided
6.Medical practitioner making post-mortem
7.Coroner to notify persons of post-mortem to be made
8.Persons attending post-mortem not to interfere
9.Preservation of material
10.Report on post-mortem
11.Premises for post-mortems
PART IV SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS
12.Preservation of material
13.Report on special examination
PART V BURIAL ORDERS
14.Issue of burial order
15.Burial order where certificate for disposal of body issued
PART VI INQUESTS
16.Formality
17.Inquest in public
18.Days on which inquest not to be held
19.Coroner to notify persons of inquest arrangements
20.Entitlement to examine witnesses
21.Examination of witnesses
22.Self-incrimination
23.Adjournment where inspector or representative of enforcing authority etc. is not present
24.Notice to person whose conduct is likely to be called in question
25.Adjournment where person whose conduct is called in question is not present
26.Request by chief officer of police for adjournment
27.Request by Director of Public Prosecutions for adjournment
28.Coroner to adjourn in certain other cases
29.Coroner to furnish certificate after adjournment
30.Coroner's interim certificate of the fact of death
31.Coroner to furnish certificate stating result of criminal proceedings
32.Effect of institution of criminal proceedings
33.Coroner to notify persons as to resumption of, and alteration of arrangements for, adjourned inquest
34.Recognizance of witness or juror becoming void
35.Coroner to notify Crown Court officer of adjournment in certain cases
36.Matters to be ascertained at inquest
37.Documentary evidence
38.Exhibits
39.Notes of evidence
40.No addresses as to facts
41.Summing-up and direction to jury
42.Verdict
43.Prevention of similar fatalities
PART VII SUMMONING OF JURORS AND EXCUSAL FROM JURY SERVICE
44.Summoning of jurors
45.Method of summoning
46.Notice to accompany summons
47.Withdrawal or alteration of summons
48.Summoning in exceptional circumstances
49.Excusal for previous jury service
50.Certificate of attendance
51.Excusal for certain persons and discretionary excusal
52.Discharge of summons in case of doubt as to capacity to act effectively as a juror
53.Saving for inquests held by the coroner of the Queen's household
PART VIII RECORDS, DOCUMENTS, EXHIBITS AND FORMS
54.Register of deaths
55.Retention and delivery or disposal of exhibits
56.Retention and delivery of documents
57.Inspection of, or supply of copies of, documents etc
58.Deputy or assistant deputy to sign documents in own name
59.Transfer of documents etc. to next-appointed coroner
60.Forms
Signature
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
REVOCATIONS
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 3
SCHEDULE 4
FORMS
Explanatory Note