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CORONERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 2

Appointment of coroners, etc.

2.(1) [The Lord Chancellor may appoint] one, or more than one, coroner and
deputy coroner for such district or districts and on such conditions as to
numbers, remuneration, superannuation or otherwise as [the Lord Chancellor,
after consultation with the Treasury may determine and may also, in exercise
of his powers under section 69 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978,
appoint coroner's officers and other officers to assist such coroners].

(2) Sub-section (2) of section eighteen of the Interpretation Act (Northern
Ireland), 1954, shall apply to appointments made under sub-section (1) save
that no coroner or deputy coroner shall be removed from office otherwise than
by order made by the [Lord Chancellor] after consultation with the Lord Chief
Justice.

(3) No person, other than a person who is a coroner in Northern Ireland
immediately before the coming into force of this Act, shall be appointed a
coroner unless he [has practised for not less than five years either as a
member of the Bar of Northern Ireland or as a solicitor of the Supreme Court].

(4) Any person who is a coroner immediately before the commencement of
this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed a coroner under this Act and
to have been appointed for the same district and on the same conditions as
immediately before the commencement of this Act.

(5) A coroner shall not act as solicitor or barrister in proceedings arising
out of any matter which may have come before him as coroner nor act as
under-sheriff ....

(6) A solicitor or barrister appointed as coroner or deputy coroner under
this Act shall not conduct any inquest upon the body of, or hold any inquiry
into the death of, any person, if he has drawn up, or assisted in the drawing
up of, and is a beneficiary under, any testamentary disposition made by such
person.

(7) A coroner who is a registered medical practitioner shall not conduct any
inquest upon the body of, or hold any inquiry into the death of, any person on
whom he had, within one month prior to the death of such person, attended in
his capacity as such practitioner.

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