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CORONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 69

Consideration of deceased's family etc

    (1)     The coroner must not conduct a hearing into a death in care or death in custody unless satisfied that—

        (a)     a member of the immediate family of the deceased has been notified of the time and place of the hearing; or

        (b)     reasonable efforts to notify a member of the immediate family of the deceased have been made but were unsuccessful;

and, if the deceased was an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, the appropriate local Aboriginal legal service has been notified.

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) prevents a coroner from conducting a hearing if the coroner believes, on reasonable grounds, that it would be in the public interest or the interests of justice to do so.



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