New Zealand Legislation: Acts

93 Certificate of and written reasons for interim findings

• (1) Before concluding an inquiry, the coroner conducting it may, after considering all the evidence admitted to date for the purposes of the inquiry, and in the light of the purposes stated in section 57, complete and sign a certificate of interim findings in relation to the death concerned.

  (2) The certificate of interim findings must be in the prescribed form, which must require the coroner to state in writing the reasons for his or her interim findings.

  (3) The coroner must send the completed and signed certificate of findings to the Secretary.