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APPENDICESNumber 9 of 1962.CORONERS ACT, 1962.AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THELAW RELATING TO CORONERS AND TOCORONERS’ INQUESTS. [11TH APRIL, 1962.]BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS ASFOLLOWS:PART IPRELIMINARY AND GENERAL1.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Coroners Act, 1962.(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day as theMinister shall by order appoint for that purpose.Short title andcommencement.2.-In this Act-“coroner”, except in sections 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16 and 59, includesa person appointed under subsection (2) of section 5 of theLocal Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926, asapplied by section 8 of this Act, to fill the office of coronertemporarily;Definitions.1926, No. 39.“deputy coroner” has the meaning given to it by section 13 ofthis Act;“local authority” means the council of a county or thecorporation of a county borough;“the Minister” means the Minister for Justice;“prescribed”, save where the context otherwise requires,means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister underthis Act;“registered medical practitioner” means a person who isregistered, other than provisionally or temporarily, under theMedical Practitioners Acts, 1927 to 1961, in the Register ofMedical Practitioners for Ireland.3.-(1) The Minister may make regulations in relation to anymatter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.Regulations.(2) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall119
APPENDICESbe laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may beafter it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation ispassed by either such House within the next subsequenttwenty-one days on which that House has sat after theregulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulledaccordingly but without prejudice to anything previously donethereunder.4.-The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administrationof this Act shall to such extent as may be sanctioned by theMinister for Finance be paid out of moneys provided by theOireachtas.5.-The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act arehereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third columnof the Schedule.Expenses.Repeals.PART IICORONERS AND CORONERS’ DISTRICTS6.-(1) The coroners’ districts of the State shall, subject tosubsection (2) of this section, the provisions of any order undersubsection (3) of this section and section 7 of this Act be thesame as the coroners’ districts immediately before thecommencement of this Act.Coroners’ districts.(2) The boroughs of Kilkenny, Clonmel, Drogheda and Sligoshall be included, respectively, with the areas which,heretofore, constituted the coroners’ districts of CountyKilkenny, County Tipperary South Riding, County Louth andNorth County Sligo to form new coroners’ districts.(3) The boundary between two adjoining coroners’ districtsthe coroners for which were appointed by the same localauthority may be altered by the Minister by order made afterconsultation with the Minister for Local Government and withthe consent of the coroners for such districts.(4) Where a vacancy occurs in a coroner’s district portion ofwhich is within a county borough, that portion shallthereupon cease to be part of that district and shall beamalgamated with the district comprising the remainder ofthe county borough,the coroner of which shall become coroner for the districtthereby created and comprising the whole of the countyborough.(5) Section 10 of this Act shall have effect in the case of thecreation of a coroner’s district under subsection (4) of this120
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