69Consideration of deceased’s family etc

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.