Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

CORONERS ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Part 1 Preliminary
   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
           Part 2 Coroners, &c.
   4.      Coroners
   4A.     Functions of Territory Coroner
   5.      Deputy coroners
   6.      Jurisdiction of coroners and deputy coroners
   7.      Protection of coroner
   8.      Delegation
   9.      Appointment of coroner's clerk
   10.     Functions and powers of coroners' clerks
   11.     Records of findings, &c.
           Part 3 Reporting deaths
   12.     Obligation to report deaths
   13.     Information to coroner
           Part 4 Investigation of deaths
           Division 1 Coroners' general powers and duties
   14.     Coroners' jurisdiction to investigate deaths
   15.     Coroners' jurisdiction to hold inquest into death
   16.     Decision not to hold inquest to be notified
   17.     Control of body, certificate permitting burial, &c.
   18.     Aid to coroners in other places
           Division 2 Coroners' powers of investigation
   19.     Powers of entry, &c.
   20.     Autopsies
   21.     Application for autopsy
   22.     Senior next of kin of deceased to be notified
   23.     Objections to autopsy
   24.     Exhumation
           Division 3 Deaths in custody
   25.     Coroner may give directions to police
   26.     Report on additional matters by coroner
   27.     Coroner to send report etc. to Attorney-General
           Part 5 Investigation of disasters
           Division 1 Coroners' general powers and duties
   28.     Coroners' jurisdiction to investigate disasters
   29.     Referral by Attorney-General for investigation
   30.     Jurisdiction to hold inquest into disaster
   31.     Police to report to Coroner
           Division 2 Coroners' powers of investigation
   32.     Restriction of access to disaster area
   33.     Powers of entry, &c.
           Part 6 Investigations and inquests into deaths and disasters
   34.     Coroners' findings and comments
   35.     Coroners' reports
   36.     Compliance with coroner's direction
   37.     Advertisement of inquest
   38.     Statements made by witnesses
   39.     Rules of evidence not binding
   40.     Rights of interested persons
   41.     Coroner's powers at inquest
   42.     Exclusion from inquest
   43.     Restriction on publication of reports
   44.     Orders by Supreme Court to hold new inquest and re-open inquest
   44A.    Coroner may re-open inquest
   45.     Coroner not to be called as witness
   46.     Contempt
           Part 7 Miscellaneous
   46A.    Reports etc. under section 27 or 35 to be forwarded to Agencies etc.
   46B.    Response to reports
   47.     Regulations
   48.     Repeal
   49.     Transitional
           Schedule 1
           Schedule 2 Repealed Acts
           ENDNOTES