Coroners Act 1996

A coroner may refer any evidence, information or matter which comes to the coroner’s notice in carrying out the coroner’s duties to a body having jurisdiction over a person carrying on a trade or profession if the evidence, information or matter —

touches on the conduct of that person in relation to that trade or profession; and

is, in the opinion of the coroner, of such a nature as might lead the body to inquire into or take any other step in respect of the conduct apparently disclosed by the evidence, information or matter so referred.

In subsection (1) a body having jurisdiction over a person carrying on a trade or profession means a body empowered under a written law to —

register, license or otherwise approve a person as a prerequisite to the person lawfully carrying on that trade or profession; and

impose or recommend any punishment or liability in respect of wrongful, incompetent or otherwise unsatisfactory conduct of that person in relation to that trade or profession.