New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CORONERS ACT 1980 - SECT 13C

13C Jurisdiction requires connection with New South Wales

(1) A coroner does not have jurisdiction to hold an inquest concerning a death or suspected death unless it appears to the coroner that:

(a) the remains of the person are in New South Wales, or

(b) the death or suspected death or the cause of the death or of the suspected death occurred in New South Wales, or

(c) the death or suspected death occurred outside New South Wales but the person had a sufficient connection with New South Wales, as referred to in subsection (2).

(2) A person had a sufficient connection with New South Wales if the person:

(a) was ordinarily resident in New South Wales when the death or suspected death occurred,

(b) was, when the death or suspected death occurred, in the course of a journey to or from some place in New South Wales, or

(c) was last at some place in New South Wales before the circumstances of his or her death or suspected death arose.