New Zealand Legislation: Acts

44 Restriction on release if parts or samples to be retained

• A coroner who directs a pathologist to perform a post-mortem of a body under section 31 and who knows the pathologist wishes to retain a body part or bodily sample under section 48(2) must not authorise the release of the body under section 42 without first having determined as soon as practicable whether the retention of the part or sample is permitted by section 48(2).