Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CORONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 76A

    (1)     A proceeding before the coroner is a legal proceeding for the Criminal Code

, chapter 7 (Administration of justice offences).

Note     That chapter includes offences (eg perjury, falsifying evidence, failing to attend and refusing to be sworn) applying in relation to coronial proceedings.

    (2)     To remove any doubt, a decision or action the coroner takes under any of the following provisions is a legal proceeding for that chapter:

        (a)     section 34A (Decision not to conduct hearing);

        (b)     section 20 (Dispensing with post-mortem examination);

        (c)     section 27 (Warrant for exhumation of body or recovery of ashes).