Coroners Act 1988

  • repealed
  • Coroners Act 1988: repealed, on 1 July 2007, by section 143 of the Coroners Act 2006 (2006 No 38).
29 Publication of details of self-inflicted deaths

  • (1) In this section,—

    Make public means publish by means of—

    • (c) A book, journal, magazine, newsletter, or other similar document; or

    • (d) A sound or visual recording:

    Particular, in relation to any death, means detail relating to the manner in which the death occurred, to the circumstances of the death, or to an inquest into the death.

    (2) If—

    • (a) There is reasonable cause to believe that a death that occurred in New Zealand after the commencement of this Act was self-inflicted; and

    • (b) No inquest into it has been completed,—

    without the authority of a coroner no person shall make public any particular relating to the manner in which it occurred.

    (3) Where any coroner has found a death to be self-inflicted,—

    • (a) Subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, without the authority of a coroner no person shall make public any particular of the death other than—

      • (i) The name, address, and occupation of the person concerned; and

      • (ii) The fact that the coroner has found the death to be self-inflicted; but

    • (b) Nothing in paragraph (a) of this subsection—

      • (ii) Prevents the Commissioner of Police from publishing under section 34(2) of that Act an opinion or recommendation under section 27 or 28 of that Act, or any part of any such opinion or recommendation, that includes any particular of the death; or

      • (iii) Prevents any person from making public a particular of the death contained in any such report, opinion, recommendation, or part of an opinion or recommendation, published under that Act,—

      without the authority of a coroner.

    Section 29 was substituted, as from 2 September 1996, by section 4(1) Coroners Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 117).

    Section 29(3)(b)(i): amended, on 29 November 2007, by section 26 of the Independent Police Conduct Authority Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 38).

    Subsection (3) was amended, as from 1 February 1993, by section 56(1) Defamation Act 1992 (1992 No 105) by substituting “within the meaning of the Defamation Act 1992, or by means other than by broadcasting within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1989” for “or broadcasting station within the meaning of the Defamation Act 1954”.