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Coroners
[1980 Ed.
Power to Attorney General to
require inquiry.
Power of coroner to make burial or cremation order.
(Cap. 174.)
Panel for jury.
(Cap. 3.)
Summoning of jurors,
inquire into and ascertain the identity of the body and the cause of death, and whether judgment of death was duly executed on the offender.
(2) Whenever any person dies whilst in official custody, a coroner shall as soon as practicable inquire into the cause of death.
(3) A coroner shall hold an inquiry under this section with a jury of 3 persons as hereinafter provided.
8. A coroner shall when required by the Attorney General hold an inquiry into the cause of and the circumstances connected with the death of any person.
9. A coroner may, notwithstanding that he considers that an inquiry is necessary, order any body to be buried or cremated and he shall in such case give a certificate of his order in the form prescribed for the purposes of the proviso to section 17(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance.
10. (1) Whenever the Registrar of the Supreme Court is notified by a coroner that an inquiry is to be held with a jury, he shall draw either from the common jurors ballot box or from the special jurors ballot box, as the coroner may direct, the names of 6 jurors to form a panel and shall transmit such panel to the coroner.
(2) The provisions of the Jury Ordinance shall, so far as they are applicable, apply to the drawing of the names of the jurors under subsection (1).
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11. (1) Every juror whose name is drawn under section 10(1) shall be served with a summons in the prescribed form, requiring the attendance of the jurors drawn.
(2) Every such summons shall be served either personally or by leaving the same at the juror's residence or place of business, or by sending the same by registered post addressed to such juror at his residence or place of business:
Provided that if any such summons be not served personally it shall be served 4 clear days before the day appointed for the holding of the inquiry, and, in the case of service by post, an additional 2 clear days shall be allowed for delivery.
(3) A summons served by post under the provisions of subsection (2) and not returned as undelivered shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be deemed to have been duly served.
(4) Any juror who, having been served with a summons in accordance with this section fails, without reasonable excuse, to attend an inquiry pursuant to such summons or at any adjournment of an inquiry shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $3,000. (Replaced, 49 of 1980, s. 5)
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