Coroners (Amendment) Act 1980 (ACT)

N o . 5 of 1980

An Ordinance to amend the Coroners Ordinance 1956

I, T H E G O V E R N O R - G E N E R A L of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following

Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated this eleventh day of March 1980.

Z E L M A N C O W E N

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

P. DURACK

Attorney-General

C O R O N E R S ( A M E N D M E N T ) O R D I N A N C E 1980

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Coroners (Amendment) Ordinance

1980.1

Commencement

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the Minister of State for the Capital Territory by notice in the Gazette.

(a)	a reference in the relevant provisions to the Court of Petty Sessions
shall be read as a reference to the Coroner;

3. Section 29 of the Coroners Ordinance 1956 2 is repealed and the follow­

ing section substituted:

Recording of proceedings

"29. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), sections 54A, 60, 255B and 255C of the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 1930 (in this section called 'the relevant provisions') apply in relation to the depositions of a witness who gives evidence at an inquest or inquiry as if those depositions were depositions in proceedings in the Court of Petty Sessions.

" (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1)—

(b)	a reference in the relevant provisions to the Clerk of the Court of Petty Sessions shall be read as a reference to the Clerk of the Coroner's Court;
(c)	sub-section 255B (1) applies as if the proceedings at an inquest or in­ quiry were proceedings referred to in paragraph 255B (1) (a); and
(d)	section 255C applies as if the following sub-section were substituted for sub-section 255C (2):

'(2) A person is not entitled to make an application under this sec­ tion in relation to a record made at an inquest or inquiry unless he has satisfied the Clerk or a Coroner that he has good reasons for so applying.'.".

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 March 1980.

2.     Ordinance No. 14, 1956 as amended by No. 5, 1965; No. 2, 1967; No. 49, 1973; Nos. 15 and 47,1974; No. 65,1977; No. 46 ,1978.