Coroners Act 1996

The State Coroner must issue guidelines with respect to the principles, practices and procedures of the State coronial system, but those guidelines must not be inconsistent with this Act or any other written law.

Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the State Coroner may issue guidelines relating to —

the administration of the State coronial system;

forms that are to be used and the circumstances when a particular form is appropriate;

the general desirability of enabling any next of kin of the deceased under section 37(5) to view and to maintain as much contact with, and control over, the body as is practicable;

the establishment and functions of an advisory ethics committee;

the functions of coroners, coroner’s clerks and coroner’s investigators and the manner in which those functions are to be carried out;

tissue removed under section 34(2).