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In forceCompliance with coroner's direction
Part 6Investigations and inquests into deaths and disasters
36 Compliance with coroner's direction
(1)
Where a coroner believes on reasonable grounds that a person has information relevant to an investigation, the coroner may direct the person to give the information to a coroner, a coroner's clerk or a police officer.
(2)
A person must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with a lawful direction by a coroner given under subsection (1).
Maximum penalty: 40 penalty units.
This Act’s bill:Second reading speech
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