Hong Kong Ordinances

CORONERS ORDINANCE

- CHAPTER 504

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Appointment of coroners
   3A.     Appointment of deputy coroners
   3AA.    Professional qualifications of coroners
   4.      Reportable deaths
   5.      Places for autopsies, etc.
   6.      Autopsies
   7.      Power of coroner to order exhumation
   8.      Power of coroner to order burial or cremation
   9.      Investigations into deaths
   10.     Power of entry and search
   11.     Pre-inquest review
   12.     Witnesses and documents, etc.
   13.     Supply of witness statements, etc.
   14.     Inquest into sudden or violent death, etc.
   15.     Deaths in official custody
   16.     Power of Secretary for Justice to require inquest
   17.     Inquest where body destroyed or irrecoverable
   18.     Inquests in respect of deaths arising out of certain civil aviation
           accidents or merchant shipping casualties
   19.     Special provisions for purposes of sections 17 and 18
   20.     Power of Court of First Instance to order inquest
   21.     Panel for jury
   22.     Summoning of jurors
   23.     Selection of jurors from panel
   24.     Procedure with jurors
   25.     Discharge of jurors
   26.     Exemption from further jury service for specified period
   27.     Purpose of inquest
   28.     Notice of inquest
   29.     Notice to be given to a person whose conduct is likely to be
           called in question
   30.     Inquest to be public
   31.     Appearance by counsel or solicitor
   32.     Questioning of witnesses
   33.     Adjournment of inquest
   34.     Adjournment of inquest where conduct of an absent person is called
           in question
   35.     Criminal proceedings
   36.     Secretary for Justice may request adjournment of inquest in certain
           cases
   37.     Inquest not to be adjourned solely on grounds of criminal
           proceedings arising out of death
   38.     Resumption and non-resumption of inquest
   39.     Alteration of date, hour or place of adjourned inquest
   40.     Admissibility of documentary evidence
   41.     Certificate of the fact of death
   42.     Majority findings
   43.     Recording of findings
   44.     Civil liability, etc.
   45.     Forwarding transcription of evidence, etc.
   46.     Obstruction of coroner, etc.
   47.     Committal for contempt
   48.     Protection for coroners, etc.
   49.     Proof of service and of handwriting
   50.     Application of Evidence Ordinance
   51.     Non-avoidance of summons or warrant by death, etc. of coroner, etc.
   52.     Fees for certain autopsies
   53.     Rules
   54.     Rules for payment of allowance to witnesses
   55.     Amendment of Schedules
   56.     (Omitted as expired)
   57.     Repeal and transitional
   58.     (Omitted as spent)
   59.     (Omitted as spent)
   60.     (Omitted as spent)
   61.     (Omitted as spent)
   62.     (Omitted as spent)
   63.     (Omitted as spent)
   64.     (Omitted as spent)
   65.     (Omitted as spent)
   66.     (Omitted as spent)
   67.     (Omitted as spent)
   68.     (Omitted as spent)
   69.     (Omitted as spent)
   70.     (Omitted as spent)
   71.     (Omitted as spent)
   72.     (Omitted as spent)
   73.     (Omitted as spent)
   74.     (Omitted as spent)
   75.     (Omitted as spent)
   76.     (Omitted as spent)
   77.     (Omitted as spent)
   78.     (Omitted as spent)
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2


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