Appointment of coroner’s investigators
14 Appointment of coroner’s investigators
The Attorney General, on the recommendation of the State Coroner, may appoint by notice published in the Gazette persons to be coroner’s investigators.
Every member of the Police Force of the State is contemporaneously a coroner’s investigator.
A coroner’s investigator must —
assist a coroner in carrying out his or her duties under this Act;
carry out all reasonable directions of a coroner.
Subsection (3) does not require or authorise a member of the Police Force to carry out a direction of a coroner if that direction is inconsistent with a direction of the Commissioner of Police.
The State Coroner is to cause to be issued to a coroner’s investigator, who is not a member of the Police Force of the State, an identity card.
Where a person in possession of an identity card ceases to be a coroner’s investigator, that person is to return the card as soon as is practicable to the State Coroner.
Penalty: $1 000.
[Section 14 amended: No. 15 of 2003 s. 6.]
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