Bail.
Power of coroner lo order exhumation. (Cmp. 132)
Forwarding depositions.
Power to Attorney General to
direct further investigation io certain cases.
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produced in evidence, together with a list signed by the coroner of all the exhibits produced in evidence:
(6) be furnished with further copies of all or any of the documents referred to in paragraph (a) on payment of fifteen cents for each folio of seventy-two words.
17. (1) No coroner shall admit any person to bail for treason or murder, nor shall such person be admitted to bail except by onder of a judge.
(2) Subject to subsection (1) when a coroner has committed any person to prison under subsection (1) of section 16, the coroner may in his discretion admit such person to bail, on his procuring or producing such surety or sureties as. in the opinion of the coroner, will be sufficient to ensure the appearance of such person at the time and the place when he is to be tried for the offence for which he had been committed and thereupon the coroner sball take the recognizance of such person and his surety or sureties conditioned for his appearance at the time and place of trial and that he will then surrender and take his trial and will not depart the court without leave.
18. Notwithstanding anything contained in Part XI of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, a coroner may order the exhumation of the body of any person, or the remains of the body of any person, for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of death of such person in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
19. As soon as practicable after the conclusion of an inquiry the coroner shall deliver to the Attorney General—
(a) the depositions taken by him on such inquiry; (b) any documents which have been produced in evidence; (c) a list signed by the coroner of all exhibits produced in
evidence; and
(d) a certificate in the prescribed form duly filled up and
signed by him.
20. Notwithstanding that an inquiry has been concluded, the Attorney General may, if it appears to him that further investiga- tion is necessary, require the coroner to reopen such inquiry and make further investigation, and thereupon the coroner shall reopen the inquiry and proceed to make further investigation in the same manner as if the proceedings at such inquiry had not been concluded.
21. The Governor may from time to time by order published in the Gazette, prescribe the fees to be paid to any medical practi- tioner, not being a public officer, who has made a post-mortem examination pursuant to the order of a coroner under section 5 or section 6. or who has, pursuant to a stammons, attended an inquiry as a medical witness.
22. The Chief Justice may make rules-
(a) for regulating the practice and procedure at or in con-
nexion with inquiries and post-mortem examinations; (b) prescribing the forms to be used under this Ordinance.
23. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the provisions of Article 6 of the United Kingdom Forces (Jurisdiction of Colonial Courts) Order 1965.
24. The enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended respectively in the manner and to the extent specified in the second column thereof.
25. The Magistrates (Coroners Powers) Ordinance is repealed.
Enactment
Jury Ordinance,
Public Health and Urban Services. Ordinance.
Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance.
SCHEDULE
Armendntent.
[8. 24.]
(1) In subsection (1) of section 13, by deleting "other than under section 8 of the Magls- trabes (Coroners Powers) Ordinance".
(2) In subsection (2) of section 16, by deleting "section 8 of the Magistrates (CoronerS Powers) Ordinance" and substituting the following-
"the Coroners Ordinance 1967"*.
Section 121 is repealed and replaced by the following--
**Dip of exhamed
121. Where any body, or part of any body, has been exhumed under section 18 of the Coronera Ordinance 1967, the Authority shall provide for the reburial or other dis- posal of such body in such manner as it may think öt".
(1) In section 14, by deleting "magistrate" wher- ever it occurs and substituting "coroner" in cach case.
(2) In section 16, by deleting "magistrate" and
substituting "coroner".
Fees for medical
evidence.
Rules.
kt. 15 & 17 Q6o. 5, 2 99, * 261
Saving
(S.L. 1965 No. 1301)
Consequential amendment of enactments,
Schedule,
Repeal of Cap. 14.
(Cap. 3)
(Cap. 132)
(Cap. 174.)