New Zealand Legislation: Acts

94 Certificate of and written reasons for findings

• (1) The coroner conducting and completing an inquiry must consider all the evidence admitted for the purposes of the inquiry and, in the light of the purposes stated in section 57, complete and sign a certificate of findings in relation to the death concerned.

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

  (3) The certificate of findings may differ from, and once issued supersedes, any certificate of interim findings issued by the coroner in relation to the death concerned.

  (4) The coroner must send the completed and signed certificate of findings to the Secretary, together with—

  • (a) all depositions of evidence admitted for the purposes of the inquiry; and

  • (b) a certificate of the registration of the death (if applicable); and

  • (c) if the inquiry was opened pursuant to the authority of the Solicitor-General given under section 59(c) (jurisdiction of coroners to open inquiries), a copy of the Solicitor-General's authority; and

  • (d) any specified recommendations or comments (as defined in section 9) made under section 57(3) (purposes of inquiries).

  Compare: 1988 No 111 s 31