HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL — 2nd October 1969.
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MR LUDDINGTON: Sir, I haven't got this information to hand but I will certainly arrange to see it is passed to you.
Following is the additional information:—
The cost of the bus terminal to the east of Yuen Long was $265,869.00.
STATEMENT
CORONERS RULES 1969
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (MR D. T. E. ROBERTS):-Sir, among the items of subsidiary legislation which have been laid on the table today is the Coroners Rules 1969*.
These are made by the Chief Justice under section 22 of the Coroners Ordinance 1967, which empowered him to make rules regulating the practice and procedure applicable to death enquiries and post-mortem examinations.
No such rules have previously been made, and coroners have been following the English procedure in these matters and the rules before Council, which will regularize the position, follow closely the English Coroners Rules 1953.
The rules are divided into three main parts. The first, which is concerned with post-mortem examinations, regulates their time and place and the qualifications of persons conducting them and specifies who shall be informed of the examination and given an opportunity to be heard.
The second part is concerned with the conduct of death enquiries held in court and deals with the examination of witnesses, the right of a witness not to incriminate himself, adjournments, the admissi- bility of evidence and the matters which have to be determined by the
coroner.
The third part regulates the keeping of a register of deaths and the detention and disposal of documents and exhibits.
These rules, as I said, do not introduce any change of substance to present practice.
* Page 14.
† 1967 Hansard, page 421.
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