Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25)

Part 1 E+W+N.I. Coroners etc

Chapter 2 E+W Notification, certification and registration of deaths

[F1 18B Medical examiners: Wales E+W

(1) A Welsh NHS body may appoint persons as medical examiners to discharge in Wales the functions conferred on medical examiners by or under this Chapter.

(2) The Welsh Ministers must take such steps as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate for the purpose of ensuring—

(a) that enough medical examiners are appointed under subsection (1) to enable those functions to be discharged in Wales,

(b) that the funds and other resources that are made available to such medical examiners are enough to enable those functions to be discharged in Wales, and

(c) that the performance of such medical examiners is monitored by reference to any standards or levels of performance that they are expected to attain.

(3) In this section “Welsh NHS body” means—

(a) a Local Health Board,

(b) a National Health Service trust established under section 18 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, or

(c) a Special Health Authority established under section 22 of that Act.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 18A, 18B inserted (1.10.2023) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 169(1), 186(6); S.I. 2023/1035, reg. 2(b)