New Zealand Legislation: Acts

92 Body must be viewed before certain inquiries concluded

• (1) No coroner may issue a certificate of interim findings, or conclude an inquiry, unless satisfied the body concerned—

  • (a) has been viewed in New Zealand; or

  • (b) is destroyed, irrecoverable, or lost, but was in New Zealand immediately before it—

    • (i) was destroyed; or

    • (ii) became irrecoverable or lost.

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an inquiry the opening of which was authorised by the Solicitor-General under section 59(c) (jurisdiction of coroners to open inquiries).

  Compare: 1988 No 111 s 24(1)