Record of evidence
48 Record of evidence
The coroner must ensure that evidence given at an inquest is —
recorded in writing; or
recorded by sound recording apparatus.
If the evidence is recorded in writing, the record must be read and signed by the witness and the coroner.
If the evidence is recorded by sound recording apparatus and is transcribed, it must be certified as a correct transcript of that recording by —
the person who prepared the transcript; or
the person who checked the transcript, if the transcript has been checked by a person other than the person who transcribed it.
A person must not —
certify that a transcript is a correct transcript unless authorised to do so under subsection (3); or
provide a certificate in respect of any transcript which that person knows to be false in any material particular.
Penalty: $2 000.
A record is not evidence in any court of any fact asserted to in it.
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