New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CORONERS ACT 1980 - SECT 6A

6A Vacation of office of coroners and assistant coroners

(1) A coroner or assistant coroner ceases to hold office on attaining the age of 70 years.

(2) A coroner or assistant coroner who is employed in the Attorney General’s Department, ceases to hold office as a coroner or assistant coroner on ceasing, after the commencement of this section, to be so employed.

(3) A coroner or assistant coroner who was, immediately before the commencement of this section, a public servant but was not employed in the Local Courts Administration, Department of Courts Administration, ceases to hold office as a coroner or assistant coroner on ceasing, after that commencement, to be a public servant.

(4) A Magistrate who is a coroner by reason of the operation of section 10 ceases to hold office as a coroner on ceasing to be a Magistrate.

(5) The amendments made to this Act by the Coroners (Amendment) Act 1986 do not revive the appointment of a person who previously ceased to be a coroner or deputy coroner on attaining the age of 70 years or ceasing to be a public servant.