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Coroners Act 1997
69Consideration of deceased’s family etc
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69 Consideration of deceased’s family etc
(1) The coroner must not conduct a hearing into a death in care or death
in custody unless satisfied that—
(a) a member of the immediate family of the deceased has been
notified of the time and place of the hearing; or
(b) reasonable efforts to notify a member of the immediate family
of the deceased have been made but were unsuccessful;
and, if the deceased was an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
person, the appropriate local Aboriginal legal service has been
notified.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) prevents a coroner from conducting a
hearing if the coroner believes, on reasonable grounds, that it would
be in the public interest or the interests of justice to do so.