To apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service Ordered to be brought in by The Chairman of Ways and Means, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 23 March 1926. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff: or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Qualification, Appointment, and Resignation of Coroners. Clause. 1. Qualifications and disqualifications. 2. Appointment and resignation of county and borough coroners. 3. Provisions as to coroner for Isle of Wight. 4. Abolition of franchise coronerships. Salaries and Pensions. 5. Salaries of county and borough coroners. 6. Superannuation of county and borough coroners. 7. Payment of salaries and pensions. 8. Expenses of local authorities upon salaries and pensions. 9. Deputy Coroners and Assistant Deputy Coroners. Amendment of 55 & 56 Vict. c. 56. s. 1 (3). 10. Appointment of deputy by coroner of King's Household. 11. Appointment of assistant deputy coroner. 12. Coroners Districts. Formation and alteration of county coroners districts. Inquests. 13. Power to hold inquest without a jury in certain cases. 14. View of the body and burial order. 15. Failure of jury to agree. 16. Power of coroner to arrange for removal of body out of his jurisdiction. 17. Inquests where several deaths arise from one accident. Clause. 18. Inquest where body destroyed or irrecoverable. 19. Effect of 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71. s. 6. 20. Amendments with respect to inquests in cases of murder, manslaughter or infanticide. 21. 22. Post-mortem and Special Examinations. Post-mortem examination without inquest. Power of coroner to request specially qualified persons to make post-mortem and special examinations. 23. Fees to medical witnesses. 24. Power of removal of body for post-mortem or special examination. Miscellaneous and General. 25. Procedure where person charged on coroner's inquisition. 26. Power to make rules. 27. Prescription of forms. 28. Coroners' returns. 29. Amendments as to payments to or by coroners. 30. Consequential and minor amendments of 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71. 31. Repeals. 32. Application of Coroners Acts to City of London. 33. Application of enactments relating to ridings of Yorkshire and divisions of Lincolnshire. 34. Short title, citation, construction, extent, and commencement. SCHEDULES. [The words enclosed in brackets and underlined were omitted by the Lords to avoid questions of privilege.] A BILL INTITULED An Act to amend the law relating to coroners. BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:- Qualification, Appointment, and Resignation of Coroners. 66 66 A.D. 1926. 1.-(1) From and after the commencement of this QualificaAct no person shall be qualified to be appointed to be tions and a coroner for a county (in this Act referred to as a disqualifica10 county coroner ") or a coroner of a borough (in this tions. Act referred to as a borough coroner "), or a deputy or assistant deputy to a county or borough coroner, unless he is a barrister, solicitor, or legally qualified medical practitioner, of not less than five years standing 15 in his profession : Provided that no person who at the commencement of this Act is, and for a period of not less than five years has been, a franchise coroner or a deputy to a county coroner or to a borough coroner shall by reason of the 20 foregoing provision be disqualified from being appointed to be a county or borough coroner. (2) A person shall, so long as he is an alderman or councillor of a county or borough and for six months after he ceases to be an alderman or councillor thereof, 25 be disqualified for being a coroner appointed by the council of that county or borough or by a joint com A.D. 1926 mittee of which any of the members are appointed by that council and for being a deputy of a coroner so appointed. 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71. Appointment and resignation of county (3) A person shall, so long as he is coroner for a county or coroner of a borough or a deputy of such 5 coroner, be disqualified for being elected to be and for being an alderman or councillor of that county or borough. (4) Section twelve of the Coroners Act, 1887 (which requires a county coroner to have land in fee in the 10 county), shall cease to have effect. 2.-(1) On a vacancy occurring in the office of coroner for a county or borough, the council having power to appoint a person to fill the vacancy shall and borough forthwith give notice thereof to the Secretary of State. coroners. Provisions as to coroner for Isle of Wight. 15 (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act relating to the formation and alteration of coroners' districts, within three months after the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of coroner for a county or borough or within such further time as the Secretary of State may allow, 20 the council having power to appoint a coroner shall appoint a duly qualified person to the office and shall forthwith give notice of the appointment to the Secretary of State. (3) A county or borough coroner may resign his 25 office by giving notice in writing to the council having power to appoint his successor, but the resignation shall not take effect unless and until it is accepted by the council. (4) It shall not be necessary to issue a writ de 30 coronatore eligendo or a writ de coronatore exonerando in respect of the appointment or resignation of a county or borough coroner. (5) Nothing in this section shall prejudice or affect the jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor or of any court 35 with respect to the removal of coroners. 3. If His Majesty is pleased to declare in Council that it is his will to relinquish his right of appointing a person to fill the office of coroner for the Isle of Wight, then on a vacancy in that office occurring at any 40 time thereafter the Isle of Wight County Council shall have power to appoint a person to fill the vacancy, and the provisions of this Act and of any other enactment |