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CORONERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 28

Post-mortem examination without inquest.

28.[(1) Where a coroner is satisfied that a post-mortem examination should be
performed upon the body of a person into whose death he may conduct an
inquest, the coroner may] secure the services of a registered medical
practitioner on the list mentioned in section twenty-six for the performance
of a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased, and for the purposes
of the examination the coroner and the medical practitioner whose services
have been thus secured shall have the like powers, authorities and immunities
as if the examination were a post-mortem examination directed by the coroner
at an inquest upon the body of the deceased.

(2) If as a result of such post-mortem examination as aforesaid the coroner is
satisfied that an inquest is unnecessary, he shall send to the registrar of
deaths whose duty it is by law to register the death a certificate under his
hand stating the cause of death as disclosed by the report of the post-mortem
examination ....

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