New Zealand Legislation: Acts

27 Family may request pathologist's report on post-mortem

• (1) The coroner must (without charge) give the member of the person's family a copy of the report if—

  • (a) a coroner has, under section 31, directed a pathologist to perform a post-mortem of a person's body; and

  • (b) the coroner has possession of the pathologist's report on the post-mortem; and

  • (c) a member of the person's family asks the coroner, after the completion of the post-mortem, for a copy of the report; and

  • (d) the copy of the report is not, and does not (because of alterations or deletions) contain in legible form, information that the coroner has been asked by the New Zealand Police to withhold in order to avoid prejudicing the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution, and punishment of criminal offences relating to the death concerned or its circumstances.

  (2) A copy of the report (whether it is, or contains, information withheld under subsection (1)(d), or not) may be requested, and made available, in accordance with section 29.

  Compare: 1988 No 111 s 11(2)