Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CORONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 56

    (1)     A coroner must give notice, in writing, to the registrar-general of an inquest being held.

    (2)     The coroner must—

        (a)     if—

              (i)     an inquest is adjourned because of a notice under section 58 (3) (a) or the presentation of an indictment under section 58 (4); or

              (ii)     the coroner decides that an inquest so adjourned is, or is not, to proceed further;

give notice, in writing, to the registrar-general; or

        (b)     if the inquest—

              (i)     is adjourned (otherwise than as referred to in paragraph (a))—give written notice to the registrar-general of the particulars of any interim findings; or

              (ii)     is completed—give written notice to the registrar-general of the coroner's findings;

together with any particulars that are required to be entered by the registrar-general in the register under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997

that have come to the knowledge of the coroner.