Coroners (Amendment) Act 1969 (NSW)

(2 ) The Coroners Act, 1960, as subsequently

amended and as amended by this Act, may be cited as the
Coroners Act, 1960-1969.

2.      The Coroners Act, 1960-1967, is amended—

(a)	by omitting from subsection two of section nine the words "A person" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "Except as hereinafter provided a person";
(b)	by inserting at the end of the same section the following new subsection :—

(3) (a) Within any police district to which this section applies a stipendiary magistrate may, by an instrument in writing under his hand, delegate his jurisdiction, powers and duties—

(i) to issue burial and cremation orders;

(ii)   to dispense with the holding of an inquest where death results from natural causes; and

(iii) in respect of any prescribed matters,

to an officer of the court at which he acts as

coroner.

Such officer when acting in pursuance of any

such delegation, shall be deemed to be a coroner.

(b) A delegation under this section—

EVIDENCE

(i)   shall not prevent the stipendiary magistrate from exercising any jurisdiction, power or duty delegated ; and

(ii)   may be revoked at any time by the stipendiary magistrate.