CORONERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 13 Coroner may hold inquest.

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CORONERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 13

Coroner may hold inquest.

13.[(1) Subject to sub-section (2)] a coroner within whose district

(a)a dead body is found; or

(b)an unexpected or unexplained death, or a death in suspicious circumstances
or in any of the circumstances mentioned in section seven, occurs;

[(2) Where more than one death occurs as a result of any circumstances and it
appears to any coroner who may hold an inquest into one of the deaths under
sub-section (1) that one inquest ought to be held into all the deaths so
resulting he may

(a)with the consent of any other coroner who may hold an inquest into one of
the deaths, hold the inquest; or

(b)request that other coroner to hold the inquest.]

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CORONERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 13