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4. (1) The Governor may by order set apart suitable places for the reception of dead bodies for the purpose of post-mortem examination and provide for the management of such places.
(2) A coroner may order the removal of any dead body to and from any such place for the purpose of any post-mortem examination, and may order the cost of the removal to be a charge on the general revenue of the Colony.
5. (1) Whenever a dead body is brought to a hospital, the medical officer in charge of the hospital or such other Government medical officer or registered medical practitioner as he may depute shall make a preliminary external examination of the body and report in writing to a coroner, who may, if he considers it necessary, order a post-mortem examination.
(2) The medical officer who makes the post-mortem examination shall report on the cause of death to the coroner who ordered the post-mortem examination.
(3) Where a medical officer or registered medical practitioner reports to a coroner under subsection (1) or (2), he shall at the same time send a copy of such report to the Commissioner of Police. (Added, 22 of 1975, s. 2)
Place for post-mortem examination.
Preliminary examination of body.
Inquiry into cause of sudden or violent death, etc.
6. (1) Whenever any person dies suddenly, or by accident or violence, or under suspicious circumstances, or whenever the dead body of any person is found within the Colony or is brought into the Colony, a coroner may, if he considers that an inquiry is necessary, inquire into the cause of and the circumstances connected with the death of such person, with or without a view of the body as he may think fit, and may determine the cause of death.
(2) A coroner may hold an inquiry under this section without a jury or, if he thinks fit, with a jury of 3 persons as hereinafter provided.
(3) Such inquiry may be held notwithstanding that the cause of death did not arise within the Colony.
(4) Before deciding to hold an inquiry under this section the coroner may, if he considers it necessary, order a post-mortem examination.
(5) If a coroner considers that an inquiry is not necessary, he shall forthwith upon the request of the Attorney General forward to the Attorney General all papers, documents and other evidence relating to such death which he has considered. (Amended, 49 of 1980, s. 4)
Executions and deaths in prison, etc.
7. (1) Whenever judgment of death is executed on any offender, a coroner shall within 24 hours after the execution (or 48 hours if a general holiday intervenes in respect of which the coroner is not exempted from the operation of the Holidays Ordinance) (Cap. 149)
1980 Ed.]
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4. (1) The Governor may by order set apart suitable places for the reception of dead bodies for the purpose of post-mortem examination and provide for the management of such places.
(2) A coroner may order the removal of any dead body to and from any such place for the purpose of any post-mortem examination, and may order the cost of the removal to be a charge on the general revenue of the Colony.
5. (1) Whenever a dead body is brought to a hospital, the medical officer in charge of the hospital or such other Government medical officer or registered medical practitioner as he may depute shall make a preliminary external examination of the body and report in writing to a coroner, who may, if he considers it necessary, order a post-mortem examination.
(2) The medical officer who makes the post-mortem examina- tion shall report on the cause of death to the coroner who ordered the post-mortem examination.
(3) Where a medical officer or registered medical practitioner reports to a coroner under subsection (1) or (2), he shall at the same time send a copy of such report to the Commissioner of Police. (Added, 22 of 1975, s. 2)
Place for post-mortem examination.
Preliminary
examination of body.
Inquiry into cause of sudden or violent
6. (1) Whenever any person dies suddenly, or by accident or violence, or under suspicious circumstances, or whenever the dead body of any person is found within the Colony or is brought death, etc. into the Colony, a coroner may, if he considers that an inquiry is necessary, inquire into the cause of and the circumstances connected with the death of such person, with or without a view of the body as he may think fit, and may determine the cause of death.
(2) A coroner may hold an inquiry under this section without a jury or, if he thinks fit, with a jury of 3 persons as hereinafter provided.
(3) Such inquiry may be held notwithstanding that the cause of death did not arise within the Colony.
(4) Before deciding to hold an inquiry under this section the coroner may, if he considers it necessary, order a post-mortem examination.
(5) If a coroner considers that an inquiry is not necessary, he shall forthwith upon the request of the Attorney General forward to the Attorney General all papers, documents and other evidence relating to such death which he has considered. (Amended, 49 of 1980, s. 4)
Executions and deaths in prison,
7. (1) Whenever judgment of death is executed on any offender, a coroner shall within 24 hours after the execution (or 48 hours if a general holiday intervenes in respect of which the coroner is not exempted from the operation of the Holidays Ordinance) (Cap.149.)
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