Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1927

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Number 1 of 1927.

CORONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1927.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Duty of coroner to hold an inquest.
2.	Power to hold inquest in certain cases.
3.	Power to hold inquest without a jury in certain cases.
4.	Number of jury.
5.	Liability to service on jury at inquest.
6.	View of the body and burial order.
7.	Failure of jury to agree.
8.	Inquests where several deaths arise from one accident.
9.	Inquest where body destroyed or irrecoverable.
10.	Amendments with respect to inquests in cases of murder, manslaughter or infanticide.
11.	Post-mortem examination without inquest.
12.	Post-mortem and special examinations.
13.	Fees and expenses to witnesses.
14.	Power of removal of body for post-mortem or special examination.
15.	Exhumation.
16.	Appointment and removal of coroners.
17.	Tipperary North Riding and Tipperary South Riding to be separate counties for coroner purposes.
18.	Salaries.
19.	Power to amalgamate districts.
20.	Existing vacancies to be deemed to have occurred after passing of this Act.
21.	Power to make rules.
22.	Prescription of forms.
23.	Coroners' returns.
24.	Source out of which expenses are to be defrayed.
25.	Short title.

Act Referred to
Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926	No. 39 of 1926

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Number 1 of 1927.

CORONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1927.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO CORONERS. [3rd February, 1927.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—