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1. These Rules may be cited as the Coroners Rules 1984 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1984.
2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act of 1887” means
“the Act of 1926” means
“appropriate officer”
“chief officer of police” means
“coroner”
“deceased” means
“enforcing authority”
“hospital” means
“industrial disease” means
“inquest” means
“legal proceedings”
“pneumoconiosis medical board” and “pneumoconiosis medical panel”
“post-mortem examination” means
“registrar” means
“the Registration Acts”
“special examination”
(2) In these Rules any reference to a Rule or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to a Rule contained in these Rules, or, as the case may be, to a Schedule thereto; and any reference in a Rule to a paragraph shall be construed as a reference to a paragraph of that Rule.
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Rules specified in Schedule 1 are hereby revoked.
(2) These Rules shall not have effect in relation to any inquest begun before 1st July 1984 or to any post-mortem examination which, before that day, a coroner has directed or requested a medical practitioner to make; and, accordingly, the Rules revoked by paragraph (1) shall continue to have effect in relation to any such inquest or post-mortem examination.
Section 3A was inserted by the Coroners' Juries Act 1983, section 1.
the relevant instrument is S.I. 1980/377, as amended by S.I. 1980/1493, 1982/249 and 566.
Section 21 was amended by the Coroners (Amendment) Act 1926, sections 30 and 31 and Schedules 2 and 3.
Section 21(1) was amended by the Coroners Act 1980 (c. 38), section 1 and Schedule 1.
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