Coroners Act 2008
23Preliminary examinations
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23 Preliminary examinations
(1) The purpose of a preliminary examination is to assist the coroner in the performance of his or her functions in respect of a death.
(2) A coroner may provide a body to a medical investigator to enable a preliminary examination to be performed on the body.
(3) The provision of the body authorises the conduct of the preliminary examination.
S. 23(4) inserted by No. 11/2016 s. 140.
(4) If a medical investigator who performs a preliminary examination reports to the coroner that, in the medical investigator's opinion, the body is, or is likely to be, Aboriginal ancestral remains, the coroner must notify the Aboriginal Heritage Council of that report.