Victorian Numbered Regulations

CORONERS COURT RULES 2009 (SR NO 131 OF 2009)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   ORDER 1--PRELIMINARY

   PART 1--GENERAL

   1.      Object and title  
   2.      Authorising provision  
   3.      Commencement  

   PART 2--INTERPRETATION

   4.      Definitions  

   PART 3--MISCELLANEOUS

   5.      Act by corporation  
   6.      Seal of the Coroners Court  
   7.      Effect of non-compliance  
   8.      Dispensing with compliance  

   ORDER 2--TIME, COURT OFFICE AND DOCUMENTS

   9.      Calculating time  
   10.     Extension and abridgement  
   11.     Fixing time  
   12.     Time for service  
   13.     Filing of documents  
   14.     Inappropriate documents  

   ORDER 3--SERVICE

   15.     When personal service necessary  
   16.     How personal service is effected  
   17.     Service on particular persons  
   18.     How ordinary service effected  
   19.     Substituted service  
   20.     Service of document by the Coroners Court  
   21.     Affidavit of service  

   ORDER 4--REPORTING OF DEATHS

   22.     Obligation to report deaths  
   23.     Obligation of registered medical practitioner to report death  

   ORDER 5--INVESTIGATION OF DEATHS AND FIRES

   PART 1--INVESTIGATION OF DEATHS

   24.     Determination by coroner that reported death not a reportable death  
   25.     Certain reportable deaths do not require investigation  
   26.     Reviewable deaths may be referred to the Institute  
   27.     State Coroner may investigate a reviewable death without referring the reviewable death to the Institute  
   28.     Determination by State Coroner that death not a reviewable death  
   29.     Providing relevant persons with coronial process information  
   30.     Preliminary examinations  
   31.     Identification direction  
   32.     Identification procedure  
   33.     Direction for autopsy  
   34.     Autopsy report  
   35.     Objections to autopsy  
   36.     Request for an autopsy  
   37.     Removal of tissue and preserving material  
   38.     Senior next of kin to be advised of removal of tissue direction  

   PART 2--INVESTIGATION OF FIRES

   39.     Requests for an investigation into a fire  

   PART 3--ASSISTANCE TO CORONER IN INVESTIGATIONS

   40.     Person who made report of death to assist  
   41.     Registered medical practitioner to assist  
   42.     Person who asks for investigation of fire to assist  

   PART 4--POWERS RELATING TO INVESTIGATION

   43.     Authorising entry, search, inspection and possession  
   44.     Application for exhumation  
   45.     Suggestions regarding a proposed exhumation  
   46.     Authorisation of exhumation  

   PART 5--GENERAL

   47.     Release of body  
   48.     Application to coroner for release of body  

   ORDER 6--INQUESTS INTO DEATHS AND FIRES

   49.     Requests for an inquest  
   50.     Decision regarding whether inquest to be held  
   51.     Publication of the details of an inquest  
   52.     Exclusion from an inquest  
   53.     Interested party  
   54.     Privilege in respect of self-incrimination  
   55.     Warrants for arrest  

   ORDER 7--SEIZURE

   56.     Storage of seized things  
   57.     Access to seized things  
   58.     Seized thing no longer required to be held  
   59.     Release of seized things  

   ORDER 8--FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND REFERRALS

   60.     Findings of coroner investigating a death  
   61.     Findings of coroner investigating a fire  
   62.     Findings not required if inquest not held or discontinued  
   63.     Reports and recommendations  
   64.     Publication of findings and reports  
   65.     Reopening of an investigation  

   ORDER 9--REGISTRARS

   66.     Functions of registrars  

   ORDER 10--ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS

   67.     Access to documents  
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