Coroners Act 1993

(1) Subject to this section, a coroner must conduct an inquest in open court.

(2) A coroner may, if he or she thinks fit, for the administration of justice or national security or personal security at an inquest, order that all or any persons must go and remain outside and beyond the hearing of an inquest.

(3) The coroner's clerk must place a copy of an exclusion order under subsection (2) in a conspicuous place on or in the building where the inquest is held.

(a) must order the removal from an inquest of a person who disobeys an exclusion order under subsection (2); and

(b) may order the imprisonment of the person for not more than 2 hours if the coroner reasonably believes that the person will continue to disobey the exclusion order.