The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2017

Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 728

Coroners, England And Wales

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2017

Made

6th July 2017

Laid before Parliament

10th July 2017

Coming into force

1st August 2017

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

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2017 and comes into force on 1st August 2017.

Combining of coroner areas

2.—(1) In paragraph (2), “coroner area”, in relation to Central Lincolnshire and South Lincolnshire, means a coroner area specified in the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013(2).

(2) The coroner areas of Central Lincolnshire and South Lincolnshire are combined to create the coroner area named Lincolnshire.

Phillip Lee

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

6th July 2017

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1625) specified the former coroners’ districts under the Coroners Act 1988 (c. 13) as corresponding coroner areas under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25).

This Order combines the two coroner areas of Central Lincolnshire and South Lincolnshire into one new coroner area, called Lincolnshire.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact or no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.