South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A coroner or other
person exercising the jurisdiction of the Coroner's Court has the same
privileges and immunities from civil liability as a Judge of the Supreme
Court.
(2) A coroner, any
member of the administrative and ancillary staff of the Coroner's Court, an
investigator or a person assisting an investigator incurs no civil or criminal
liability for an honest act or omission in carrying out or exercising, or
purportedly carrying out or exercising, official functions or powers.
(3) A civil liability
that would, but for subsection (2), attach to a person referred to in
that subsection, attaches instead to the Crown.