Schedules

Schedule 2Coroner areas

Effect of body being outside coroner area etc

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(1)

This paragraph applies where—

(a)

a senior coroner is responsible for conducting an investigation under this Part into a person's death, and

(b)

the body is outside the coroner's area (whether because of its removal or otherwise).

(2)

The coroner has the same functions in relation to the body and the investigation as would be the case if the body were within the coroner's area.

(3)

The presence of the body at a place outside the coroner's area does not confer any functions on any other coroner.