Citation, commencement and application
1.
(1)
This Order may be cited as the Lincolnshire (Coroners' Districts) Order 2003.
(2)
This Order shall come into force on 1st December 2003.
(3)
This Order shall not have effect in relation to any inquest begun before the day on which it comes into force or to any post-mortem examination which, before that day, a coroner has directed or requested a medical practitioner to make.
Alteration and renaming of coroners' districts
2.
The existing Spilsby coroner’s district and Louth coroner’s district3 shall be amalgamated to form a single coroner’s district called the Spilsby and Louth Coroner’s District.
3.
Accordingly, the County of Lincolnshire shall be divided into 4 coroners' districts and each such coroner’s district shall consist of the areas specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order opposite to the name of the coroner’s district in question as given in column 1 of that Schedule.
4.
The Lincolnshire (Coroners' Districts) Order 2002 is hereby revoked.
Paul Goggins
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
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