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Coroners Regulation 1955

This reprint of this Statutory Instrument incorporates all amendments, if any, made before25 November 2006 and in force at  1 July 2001.

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Legislative Counsel
Dated 25 November 2006

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Chapter 32.

Coroners Regulation 1955

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Coroners Regulation 1955

MADE under the Coroners Act.

Dated                   200 .

1. PRESCRIBED FORMS.

For the purposes of the Act–

(a) a summons to a witness to attend an inquest and give evidence and be examined shall be in Form 1; and

(b) a summons to a medical practitioner as a witness shall be in Form 2; and

(c) a warrant for the arrest of a witness for contempt of a summons shall be in Form 3; and

(d) a warrant of commitment for trial of a person charged by a Coroner’s inquisition under Section 19 of the Act shall be in Form 4; and

(e) a warrant of commitment for contempt shall be in Form 5; and

(f) the deposition of a witness taken under Section 23 of the Act shall be in Form 6; and

(g) a recognizance under Section 19(3) of the Act shall be in Form 7; and

(h) a decision of a Coroner on an inquest under the Act shall be in Form 8; and

(i) a warrant by a Coroner for the burial of a person shall be in Form 9; and

(j) a warrant for the exhumation of a dead body for the purpose of holding an inquest on that body shall be in Form 10; and

(k) a Coroner’s certificate under Section 7(4) of the Act that an inquest on death is unnecessary shall be in Form 11; and

(l) a certificate under Section 17(2) of the Act that an inquest on fire is unnecessary shall be in Form 12.

2. EXPENSES OF MEDICAL WITNESS.

The amount of the expenses to be paid under Section 31(2) of the Act, to a medical practitioner not in the Public Service, is K6.30.

SCHEDULE 1

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Form 1 – Summons to witness.

Reg., Sec. 1(a). Form 1.

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Form 2 – Summons for the attendance of a medical witness.

Reg., Sec. 1(b). Form 2.

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Form 3 – Warrant against witness for contempt of summons.

Reg., Sec. 1(c). Form 3.

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Form 4 – Warrant of commitment for trial.

Act, Sec. 19(1)(c). Form 4.Reg., Sec. 1(d).

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Form 5 – Warrant of commitment for contempt of court.

Reg., Sec. 1(e). Form 5.

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Form 6 – Deposition of witness.

Act, Sec. 23.Reg., Sec. 1(f). Form 6.

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Form 7 – Recognizance where a person committed by the coroner is admitted to bail.

Act, Sec. 19(3). Form 7.Reg., Sec. 1(g).

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Form 8 – Form of inquisition.

Reg., Sec. 1(h). Form 8.

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Form 9 – Warrant to bury.

Reg., Sec. 1(i) Form 9.

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Form 10 – Warrant to take up body interred.

Reg., Sec. 1(j). Form 10.

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Form 11 – Coroner’s certificate where inquest on death will serve no good purpose.

Act, Sec. 7(4). Form 11.Reg., Sec. 1(k).

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Form 12 – Coroner’s certificate where inquest on fire will serve no good purpose.

Act, Sec. 17(2). Form 12.Reg, Sec. 1(1).

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