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CORONERS ACT 1996 - SECT 59

59 .         Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), regulations may — 

            (a)         specify the matters to be taken into account when considering whether or not a post mortem examination should be performed;

            (b)         prescribe fees and forms for the purposes of this Act, other than fees and forms with respect to any application to the Supreme Court;

            (c)         prescribe who is to be the senior next of kin in prescribed circumstances or in relation to a prescribed group or class of persons;

            (d)         give effect to any recommendation contained in the National Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody which relates to the investigation of the death of a person held in care.

[ 60.         Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(f).]

[ 61.         Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]



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