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Adjournment of inquiry.
[cf. 1926 c. 59, s. 20(1).]
(cf. 1926 c. $9, s. 20(3).]
General powers of coroner.
(Cap. 227.)
Power to issue warrant, etc.
[cf. 1926 c. 59, s. 20(2).]
[Cap. 227,
s. 86(2), (3).]
CAP. 14]
Coroners
[1980 Ed.
14. (1) A coroner may adjourn any inquiry either to a fixed date or to a date to be fixed subsequently, and may, if he considers it necessary, use the same jury when the inquiry is subsequently held or resumed.
(2) A coroner shall adjourn an inquiry if, before the close of the inquiry, any person has been charged before a magistrate with the murder, manslaughter or infanticide of the person whose death is the subject of the inquiry or with dangerous driving causing the death of such person.
(3) Whenever a new jury is empanelled on the resumption of an inquiry which has been adjourned in accordance with subsection (1) or (2), the coroner shall proceed in all respects as if the inquiry had not previously begun, and this Ordinance shall apply accordingly as if the resumed inquiry were a new inquiry:
Provided that the deposition of a witness who was examined at the original inquiry and is dead or unable to be present at the resumed inquiry may be read as evidence at the resumed inquiry.
(4) Whenever a coroner resumes an inquiry which has been adjourned under subsection (1) or (2), being an inquiry by the coroner without a jury or with the jury empanelled at the original inquiry, the coroner may proceed at the resumed inquiry as if the inquiry had not been adjourned.
15. A coroner shall have in relation to the inquiries provided for in sections 6, 7 and 8 the same powers in all respects as a magistrate has under Part II of the Magistrates Ordinance.
16. (1) A coroner may, at the conclusion of an inquiry, issue his warrant in the prescribed form for the apprehension and committal to prison of any person to be brought before a magistrate to be prosecuted according to law and he may bind over any witness who shall have been examined at the inquiry in a recognizance with or without surety to appear and give evidence on such prosecution:
Provided that no person who has been charged on indictment may be charged with any offence of which he could have been convicted on the indictment.
(2) Any person committed to prison under subsection (1) shall, on application by himself or by his solicitor made on his behalf to the coroner's clerk-
(a) be furnished free of charge before his trial with one copy of the depositions and any documents which have been produced in evidence, together with a list signed by the coroner of all the exhibits produced in evidence;
(b) be furnished with further copies of all or any of the documents referred to in paragraph (a) on payment of 50 cents for each folio of 72 words.
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