New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsThe functions of the State Coroner are:
(a) to oversee and co-ordinate coronial services in New South Wales, and
(b) to ensure that all deaths, suspected deaths, fires and explosions concerning which a coroner has jurisdiction to hold an inquest or inquiry are properly investigated, and
(c) to ensure that an inquest or inquiry is held whenever it is required by this Act to be held or it is, in the State Coroner’s opinion, desirable that it be held, and
(d) to issue guidelines to coroners to assist them in the exercise or performance of their functions, and
(e) to exercise such other functions as are conferred or imposed on the State Coroner by or under this or any other Act.