Chapter Number and Title of Enactment
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Chapter: | 504 | Title: | CORONERS ORDINANCE |  | |
: If this pencil mark appears at the beginning of a provision, that provision is subject to amendments that are already in operation but have not yet been incorporated in its text.
| Cap 504 | Long title | |
| Cap 504 Part I | PRELIMINARY | |
| Cap 504 s 1 | Short title | |
| Cap 504 s 2 | Interpretation | |
| Cap 504 s 3 | Appointment of coroners | |
| Cap 504 s 3AA | Professional qualifications of coroners | |
| Cap 504 s 3A | Appointment of deputy coroners | |
| Cap 504 Part II | REPORTABLE DEATHS, AUTOPSIES AND POWERS OF CORONER TO ORDER EXHUMATION, BURIAL OR CREMATION | |
| Cap 504 s 4 | Reportable deaths | |
| Cap 504 s 5 | Places for autopsies, etc. | |
| Cap 504 s 6 | Autopsies | |
| Cap 504 s 7 | Power of coroner to order exhumation | |
| Cap 504 s 8 | Power of coroner to order burial or cremation | |
| Cap 504 Part III | INVESTIGATIONS INTO DEATHS, POWER OF ENTRY AND SEARCH, PRE-INQUEST REVIEWS, WITNESSES AND DOCUMENTS | |
| Cap 504 s 9 | Investigations into deaths | |
| Cap 504 s 10 | Power of entry and search | |
| Cap 504 s 11 | Pre-inquest review | |
| Cap 504 s 12 | Witnesses and documents, etc. | |
| Cap 504 s 13 | Supply of witness statements, etc. | |
| Cap 504 Part IV | CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH CORONER MAY OR MUST HOLD INQUEST | |
| Cap 504 s 14 | Inquest into sudden or violent death, etc. | |
| Cap 504 s 15 | Deaths in official custody | |
| Cap 504 s 16 | Power of Secretary for Justice to require inquest | |
| Cap 504 s 17 | Inquest where body destroyed or irrecoverable | |
| Cap 504 s 18 | Inquests in respect of deaths arising out of certain civil aviation accidents or merchant shipping casualties | |
| Cap 504 s 19 | Special provisions for purposes of sections 17 and 18 | |
| Cap 504 s 20 | Power of Court of First Instance to order inquest | |
| Cap 504 Part V | JURORS | |
| Cap 504 s 21 | Panel for jury | |
| Cap 504 s 22 | Summoning of jurors | |
| Cap 504 s 23 | Selection of jurors from panel | |
| Cap 504 s 24 | Procedure with jurors | |
| Cap 504 s 25 | Discharge of jurors | |
| Cap 504 s 26 | Exemption from further jury service for specified period | |
| Cap 504 Part VI | INQUESTS | |
| Cap 504 s 27 | Purpose of inquest | |
| Cap 504 s 28 | Notice of inquest | |
| Cap 504 s 29 | Notice to be given to a person whose conduct is likely to be called in question | |
| Cap 504 s 30 | Inquest to be public | |
| Cap 504 s 31 | Appearance by counsel or solicitor | |
| Cap 504 s 32 | Questioning of witnesses | |
| Cap 504 s 33 | Adjournment of inquest | |
| Cap 504 s 34 | Adjournment of inquest where conduct of an absent person is called in question | |
| Cap 504 s 35 | Criminal proceedings | |
| Cap 504 s 36 | Secretary for Justice may request adjournment of inquest in certain cases | |
| Cap 504 s 37 | Inquest not to be adjourned solely on grounds of criminal proceedings arising out of death | |
| Cap 504 s 38 | Resumption and non-resumption of inquest | |
| Cap 504 s 39 | Alteration of date, hour or place of adjourned inquest | |
| Cap 504 s 40 | Admissibility of documentary evidence | |
| Cap 504 s 41 | Certificate of the fact of death | |
| Cap 504 s 42 | Majority findings | |
| Cap 504 s 43 | Recording of findings | |
| Cap 504 s 44 | Civil liability, etc. | |
| Cap 504 s 45 | Forwarding transcription of evidence, etc. | |
| Cap 504 Part VII | MISCELLANEOUS | |
| Cap 504 s 46 | Obstruction of coroner, etc. | |
| Cap 504 s 47 | Committal for contempt | |
| Cap 504 s 48 | Protection for coroners, etc. | |
| Cap 504 s 49 | Proof of service and of handwriting | |
| Cap 504 s 50 | Application of Evidence Ordinance | |
| Cap 504 s 51 | Non-avoidance of summons or warrant by death, etc. of coroner, etc. | |
| Cap 504 s 52 | Fees for certain autopsies | |
| Cap 504 s 53 | Rules | |
| Cap 504 s 54 | Rules for payment of allowance to witnesses | |
| Cap 504 s 55 | Amendment of Schedules | |
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| Cap 504 Sched 1 | ||
| Cap 504 Sched 2 | PROPERLY INTERESTED PERSONS |
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