New Zealand Legislation: Acts

74 Coroner may prohibit making public of evidence given at any part of inquiry proceedings

• If satisfied that it is in the interests of justice, decency, public order, or personal privacy to do so, a coroner may prohibit the making public of—

  • (a) any evidence given or submissions made at or for the purposes of any part of the proceedings of an inquiry (for example, at an inquest); and

  • (b) the name, and any name or particulars likely to lead to the identification, of any witness or witnesses.

  Compare: 1985 No 120 s 138(2); 1988 No 111 s 25(2)(b)