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CORONERS ACT 1996 - SECT 5

5 .         Establishment of court

        (1)         A court to be known as the Coroner’s Court of Western Australia is established.

        (2)         The court is to be constituted by a coroner and has exclusive jurisdiction to hold all inquests under this Act.

        (3)         The court constituted by a coroner may sit and exercise the jurisdiction of the court at the same time as any other court constituted by a coroner is sitting and exercising the jurisdiction of the court.

        (4)         The court is a court of record and is to have an official seal of which judicial notice must be taken.



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