The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013

Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 1625

Coroners, England And Wales

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013

Made

2nd July 2013

Laid before Parliament

4th July 2013

Coming into force

25th July 2013

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 2, paragraph 2(1)(a) of Schedule 3 and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 22 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009(1) and after consulting in accordance with paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 2 and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 3 to that Act, makes the following Order.

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013.

2.  This Order comes into force on the 25th July 2013.

Interpretation

3.  In this Order—

“coroner’s district” means a coroner’s district constituted under the Coroners Act 1988(2), as it exists immediately before the day on which this Order comes into force;

“coroner area” means a coroner area specified by this Order.

Coroners’ districts specified as coroner areas

4.  Each coroner’s district listed in the table in the Schedule to this Order is specified as a coroner area with the same name (but ending with “coroner area” instead of “coroner’ district”).

Appointment of an assistant coroner for each coroner area

5.  At least one assistant coroner must be appointed for each coroner area specified by this Order.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Helen Grant

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

2nd July 2013

Article 4

SCHEDULE

Coroner’s district to be specified as a corresponding coroner area
Avon
Bedfordshire and Luton
Berkshire
Birmingham and Solihull
Black Country
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley
Blackpool and Fylde
Bournemouth, Poole and Eastern Dorset
Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys/ Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr a Chymoedd Morgannwg
Brighton and Hove
Buckinghamshire
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
Carmarthenshire/ Sir Gaerfyrddin
Central and South East Kent
Central Hampshire
Central Lincolnshire
Ceredigion
Cheshire
City of London
Cornwall
Coventry
Darlington and South Durham
Derby and South Derbyshire
East Lancashire
East London
East Riding and Hull
East Sussex
Essex and Thurrock
Exeter and Greater Devon
Gateshead and South Tyneside
Gloucestershire
Gwent
Hartlepool
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Inner North London
Inner South London
Inner West London
Isle of Wight
Isles of Scilly
Leicester City and South Leicestershire
Liverpool
Manchester (City)
Manchester North
Manchester South
Manchester West
Mid and North West Shropshire
Mid Kent and Medway
Milton Keynes
Neath Port Talbot/ Castell-nedd Port Talbot
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
North and East Cambridgeshire
North and West Cumbria
North Derbyshire
North Durham
North East Hampshire
North East Kent
North Lincolnshire and Grimsby
North London
North Northumberland
North Tyneside
North Wales (East and Central)/ Gogledd Cymru (Dwyrain a Chanol
North West Kent
North West Wales / Gogledd Orllewin Cymru
North Yorkshire (Eastern)
North Yorkshire (Western)
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham
Oxfordshire
Pembrokeshire / Sir Benfro
Peterborough
Plymouth and South West Devon
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire
Powys
Preston and West Lancashire
Rutland and North Leicestershire
Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley
Somerset (Eastern)
Somerset (Western)
South and East Cumbria
South and West Cambridgeshire
South Lincolnshire
South London
South Northumberland
South Shropshire
South Staffordshire
South Yorkshire (East)
South Yorkshire (West)
Southampton and New Forest
Southend and South East Essex
Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire
Suffolk
Sunderland
Surrey
Swansea/ Abertawe
Teesside
The Wrekin
Torbay and South Devon
Warwickshire
Western Dorset
West London
West Sussex
West Yorkshire (Eastern)
West Yorkshire (Western)
Wiltshire and Swindon
Wirral
Worcestershire
York

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This note specifies new coroner areas under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 and sets out the minimum number of assistant coroners that must be appointed to each coroner area. As required by the 2009 Act, the coroner areas created by this order correspond with the coroners’ districts under the Coroners Act 1988 and have the same names.

(1)

2009 c. 25.

(2)

1988 c. 13.