Victorian Numbered Regulations

CORONERS COURT RULES 2019 (SR NO 97 OF 2019)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   ORDER 1—PRELIMINARY

   PART 1--GENERAL

   1.      Object and title  
   2.      Authorising provisions  
   3.      Commencement  
   4.      Revocations  
   5.      Definitions  
   6.      Application  

   PART 2--MISCELLANEOUS

   7.      Act by corporation  
   8.      Seal of the Coroners Court  
   9.      Effect of non-compliance  
   10.     Dispensing with compliance  

   ORDER 2—TIME AND DOCUMENTS

   11.     Calculating time  
   12.     Extension and abridgement  
   13.     Fixing time  
   14.     Time for service  
   15.     Filing of documents  
   16.     Inappropriate documents  

   ORDER 3—SERVICE

   17.     When personal service is necessary  
   18.     Summons must be served personally  
   19.     How personal service is effected  
   20.     Service on particular persons  
   21.     How ordinary service effected  
   22.     Substituted service  
   23.     Service of document by the Coroners Court  
   24.     Affidavit of service  

   ORDER 4—REPORTING OF DEATHS

   25.     Obligation to report deaths  
   26.     Obligation of registered medical practitioner to report death  

   ORDER 5—INVESTIGATION OF DEATHS AND FIRES

   PART 1--INVESTIGATION OF DEATHS

   27.     Determination by coroner that reported death not a reportable death  
   28.     Certain reportable deaths do not require investigation  
   29.     Reviewable deaths may be referred to the Institute  
   30.     State Coroner may investigate a reviewable death without referring the reviewable death to the Institute  
   31.     Determination by State Coroner that death not a reviewable death  
   32.     Providing relevant persons with coronial process information  
   33.     Preliminary examinations  
   34.     Identification direction  
   35.     Identification procedure  
   36.     Direction for autopsy  
   37.     Autopsy report  
   38.     Objections to autopsy  
   39.     Request for an autopsy  
   40.     Removal of tissue and preserving material  
   41.     Senior next of kin to be advised of removal of tissue direction  

   PART 2--INVESTIGATION OF FIRES

   42.     Requests for an investigation into a fire  

   PART 3--ASSISTANCE TO CORONER IN INVESTIGATIONS

   43.     Person who made report of death to assist  
   44.     Registered medical practitioner to assist  
   45.     Person who asks for investigation of fire to assist  

   PART 4--POWERS RELATING TO INVESTIGATION

   46.     Authorising entry, search, inspection and possession  
   47.     Application for exhumation  
   48.     Suggestions regarding a proposed exhumation  
   49.     Authorisation of exhumation  

   PART 5--GENERAL

   50.     Release of body  
   51.     Application to coroner for release of body  

   ORDER 6—INQUESTS INTO DEATHS AND FIRES

   52.     Requests for an inquest  
   53.     Decision regarding whether inquest to be held  
   54.     Publication of the details of an inquest  
   55.     Closed court orders  
   56.     Interested party  
   57.     Privilege in respect of self-incrimination  
   58.     Warrants for arrest  

   ORDER 7—SEIZURE

   59.     Storage of seized, taken or received things or samples  
   60.     Access to seized, taken or received things or samples  
   61.     Seized, taken or received things or samples no longer required to be held  
   62.     Release of seized, taken or received things or samples  

   ORDER 8—FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND REFERRALS

   63.     Findings of coroner investigating a death  
   64.     Findings of coroner investigating a fire  
   65.     Findings not required if inquest not held or discontinued  
   66.     Proceeding suppression order  
   67.     Reports and recommendations  
   68.     Publication of findings and reports  
   69.     Publication of determination, ruling or order  
   70.     Re-opening of an investigation or setting aside a finding  

   ORDER 9—REGISTRARS

   71.     Functions of registrars  

   ORDER 10—ALLOWANCES AND REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES

   72.     Attendance expenses for expert witnesses  
   73.     Allowances and expenses of witnesses other than expert witnesses  
   74.     Meals  
   75.     Accommodation  
   76.     Travelling  
   77.     Evidence of expenses etc. to be produced  

   ORDER 11—ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS

   78.     Access to documents  
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