Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts26. (1) Subject to section 28, if a Coroner has reasonable grounds for believing that a person has died in circumstances in respect of which the Coroner has jurisdiction to hold an inquest, the Coroner may issue a warrant to a police officer named in the warrant authorising him or her, with such assistance as the police officer considers necessary, to take and remove the body to a specified place for post-mortem examination.
(2) A police officer named in the warrant may, at any time of the day or night, with such assistance as he or she considers necessary—
(a) enter into and search, and, where necessary, break open, any house, building, premises or place, where he or she has reasonable cause to suspect the body may be found; and
(b) remove the body to the place where the post-mortem examination is to be conducted.