State Coroner
6 State Coroner
A State Coroner is to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Attorney General.
A person is not eligible for appointment as State Coroner unless that person is eligible to be appointed as a magistrate.
The State Coroner is entitled to the same salary, allowances and reimbursements, leave of absence and superannuation rights, as the Chief Magistrate of the Magistrates Court is entitled to in relation to that office.
Subject to subsection (3), the State Coroner is entitled to hold office on the same terms as a magistrate.
If a person was a contributor within the meaning of the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938 2 immediately before appointment as State Coroner then that person may continue to be a contributor, or member, under that Act while holding office as State Coroner.
The State Coroner may not practise as a legal practitioner or be directly or indirectly concerned in such practice.
In the exercise of that office the State Coroner has the same protection and immunity as a judge has in respect of proceedings in the Supreme Court.
The State Coroner may at any time, by written notice addressed to the Governor, resign from office.
[Section 6 amended: No. 43 of 2000 s. 36(1); No. 65 of 2003 s. 25; No. 59 of 2004 s. 76; No. 21 of 2008 s. 652(2); No. 9 of 2022 s. 424.]
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