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The Lancashire (Coroners' Districts) Order 2002

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l.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Lancashire (Coroners' Districts) Order 2002.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 16th September 2002.

(3) This Order shall not have effect in relation to any inquest begun before the day on which it comes into force or to any post–mortem examination which, before that day, a coroner has directed or requested a medical practitioner to make.

2.—(l) The existing coroners' districts of North Lancashire and Preston and South West Lancashire (as constituted by the Lancashire (Coroners' Districts) Order 1974(1)) shall be abolished.

(2) From the area of the coroners' districts referred to in paragraph (1) above there shall be formed the coroner’s district of Preston and West Lancashire which shall consist of the area specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order opposite its name as given in column 1 of that Schedule.

3.  Accordingly, the County of Lancashire, other than that part of it included in the Blackpool and Fylde Coroner’s District and the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Coroner’s District (as constituted by the Lancashire (Coroners) Order 1998(2)), shall be divided into two coroners' districts and each such coroner’s district shall consist of the area specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order opposite the name of the coroner’s district in question as given in column 1 of that Schedule.

4.  The Lancashire (Coroners' Districts) Order 1974 is hereby revoked.

Hilary Benn

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

2nd September 2002

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