New Zealand Legislation: Acts

43 Restriction on release if no post-mortem directed

• (1) A coroner who decides not to direct a pathologist to perform a post-mortem of a body under section 31 must not authorise its release under section 42 earlier than 24 hours after notifying a member of the police of the decision.

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if a member of the police of the level of position of senior sergeant or above agrees to the coroner authorising the release of the body within the 24-hour period referred to in that subsection.

  Compare: 1988 No 111 s 13(3)

  Section 43(2): amended, on 1 October 2008, by section 130(1) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).