New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) A coroner opens and conducts an inquiry (including any related inquest) for the 3 purposes stated in this section, and not to determine civil, criminal, or disciplinary liability.
(2) The first purpose is to establish, so far as possible,—
(a) that a person has died; and
(b) the person's identity; and
(c) when and where the person died; and
(d) the causes of the death; and
(e) the circumstances of the death.
(3) The second purpose is to make specified recommendations or comments (as defined in section 9) that, in the coroner's opinion, may, if drawn to public attention, reduce the chances of the occurrence of other deaths in circumstances similar to those in which the death occurred.
(4) The third purpose is to determine whether the public interest would be served by the death being investigated by other investigating authorities in the performance or exercise of their functions, powers, or duties, and to refer the death to them if satisfied that the public interest would be served by their investigating it in the performance or exercise of their functions, powers, or duties.
Compare: 1988 No 111 s 15(1)