13Coroner may hold inquest.
F11
Subject to sub-section (2)] a coroner within whose district—
a
a dead body is found; or
b
an unexpected or unexplained death, or a death in suspicious circumstances or in any of the circumstances mentioned in section seven, occurs;
may hold an inquest either with a jury or, except in the cases in which a jury is required by sub-section (1) of section eighteen, without a jury.
F12
Where more than one death occurs as a result of any circumstances and it appears to any coroner who may hold an inquest into one of the deaths under sub-section (1) that one inquest ought to be held into all the deaths so resulting he may—
a
with the consent of any other coroner who may hold an inquest into one of the deaths, hold the inquest; or
b
request that other coroner to hold the inquest.]