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The Coroners (Practice and Procedure) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2008

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1.  These Rules may be cited as the Coroners (Practice and Procedure) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on the 1st March 2008.

Amendments to the Coroners (Practice and Procedure) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1963(1)

2.  For rule 19 substitute the following new rule—

“The coroner shall make a record of the evidence at every inquest he holds.”.

3.  In rule 38 substitute for paragraph (2) the following new paragraph—

“(2) A coroner may, on application and on payment a fee of £1.00 per sheet, furnish to any properly interested person a copy (including an electronic copy or copy made by photography or other similar process) of all or part of the record of the evidence at an inquest including any report of a post-mortem examination, or any other document put in evidence.”.

4.  For Form 5 in the Third Schedule, substitute the new Form 5 set out in the Schedule.

Signed

Brian Kerr

Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

Dated 22nd January 2008

I agree

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Hanson

Minister of State

Ministry of Justice

Dated 29th January 2008

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