New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CORONERS ACT 1980 - SECT 4G

4G Information to be given to State Coroner

(1) The State Coroner may issue general directions to coroners requiring them to give to the State Coroner information they receive concerning deaths, suspected deaths, fires or explosions.

(2) A coroner who receives information to which the directions apply must comply with the directions as soon as possible and in any event before the coroner either decides to dispense with an inquest or an inquiry or does anything under section 17 (time and place of inquest or inquiry).

(3) A coroner does not cease to have jurisdiction to hold an inquest or an inquiry merely because the coroner gives information to the State Coroner under this section.