Coroners Act 2008

The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

prescribing circumstances in relation to a death for the purposes of the definition of reportable death; and

prescribing registered medical practitioners or classes of registered medical practitioners as pathologists; and

prescribing a person or class of persons for the purposes of the definition of person placed in custody or care; and

prescribing persons that must report a reportable death; and

prescribing information in respect of the coronial process that must be provided to the senior next of kin of a deceased person or other person; and

prescribing forms (including the form of a warrant to arrest or summons); and

prescribing circumstances in which information on registers kept by the principal registrar may or may not be disclosed; and

prescribing types of registers to be kept by the principal registrar; and

prescribing the circumstances of a death that would require an inquest to be held; and

prescribing the functions of registrars; and

prescribing the functions of the State Coroner or a coroner that may be delegated to a registrar or class of registrar; and

prescribing matters to be included in the State Coroner's annual report; and

prescribing matters to be included in the Council's annual report; and

the fees payable in respect of the provision of copies of documents by the Coroners Court to a person; and

generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

Regulations made under this Act may be made so as to confer a discretionary function on a specified court officer or a specified class of court officer or the Institute.

A power conferred by subsection (1) to make regulations providing for the imposition of fees may be exercised by providing for all or any of the following matters—

specific fees;

maximum fees;

minimum fees;

fees that vary according to value or time;

the manner of payment of fees;

the time or times at which fees are to be paid.

A power conferred by this Act to make regulations may be exercised—

either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified case or class of case; and

so as to make, in respect of the cases in relation to which it is exercised—

the same provision for all cases in relation to which the power is exercised, or a different provision for different cases or classes of case, or a different provision for the same case or class of case for different purposes; or

any provision either conditionally or subject to any specified condition.