CAP. 14]
Coroners Rules.
[1971 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Post-mortem report.
(Cap. 14, sub. leg.)
275819755.3.
Places where post-mortem examinations to be made.
(Cap. 14, sub. leg.)
8. (1) The person making a post-mortem examination shall report to the coroner in Form 6 set out in the Schedule to the Coroners (Forms) Rules.
(2) Unless authorized by the coroner, the person making a post-mortem examination shall not supply a copy of his report to any person other than the coroner and the Commissioner of Police.
9. No post-mortem examination shall take place other than in a place specified in the Places for Post-Mortem Examination Order.
INQUIRIES.
Inquiries to be public.
Inquiries not to be held on holidays or Sundays.
(Cap. 149.)
Questioning of witnesses.
Order in which witness is to be questioned.
Witness not to incriminate himself.
10. Every inquiry shall be held in open court, unless the coroner directs that the public be excluded from an inquiry or any part of an inquiry.
11. An inquiry shall not be held on a general holiday as defined in the Holidays Ordinance unless the coroner considers it requisite on grounds of urgency that an inquiry shall be held on such a day, and no inquiry shall be held on a Sunday.
12. (1) Without prejudice to any enactment with regard to the examination of witnesses at an inquiry, any person who in the opinion of the coroner is a properly interested person shall be entitled to examine any witness at an inquiry either in person or by counsel or solicitor.
(2) The Commissioner of Police, unless interested otherwise than in that capacity, shall only be entitled to examine a witness by counsel or solicitor.
(3) The coroner shall disallow any question which in his opinion is not relevant or is otherwise not a proper question.
(4) If the death of the deceased may have been caused by an injury received in the course of his employment or by an industrial disease, any person appointed by a trade union to which the deceased at the time of his death belonged shall be a properly interested person for the purposes of this rule.
13. Unless the coroner otherwise determines, a witness at an inquiry shall be examined first by the coroner or his officer and, if the witness is represented at the inquiry, lastly by his representative.
14. (1) No witness at an inquiry shall be obliged to answer any question if to do so would tend to incriminate him.
(2) If it appears to the coroner that a witness has been asked such a question, the coroner shall inform the witness that he may refuse to answer.