s 11
In forceCoroners
Part 2Coroners and Coroner’s court
Division 2State Coroner and other coroners
11 Coroners
(1)
Every magistrate is contemporaneously a coroner.
(2)
The Attorney General, on the recommendation of the State Coroner, may appoint a person to be a coroner for such period and on such terms as is specified in the instrument of appointment.
(3)
A person is not eligible for appointment as a coroner unless that person is eligible to be appointed as a magistrate.
(4)
In the exercise of that office, a coroner has the same protection and immunity as a judge has in respect of proceedings in the Supreme Court.
[Section 11 amended: No. 15 of 2003 s. 5.]
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