Act Number: 4

Act Name: The Coroners Act, 1871

Year: 1871

Enactment Date: 1871-01-27

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Coroners.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 11: Power to order body to be disinterred.
    A Coroner may order a body to be disinterred within a reasonable time after the death of the deceased person either for the purpose of taking an original inquisition where none has been taken, or a further inquisition 1[where the Coroner considers it necessary or desirable in the interests of justice to take a further inquisition].
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 4 of 1908, s. 3, for “where the first was insufficient”.
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