This Act may be cited as the Coroners Amendment Act, 1920, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Coroners Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Fees, at such rates as may from time to time be prescribed in that behalf by the Governor-General in Council, shall be paid to every Coroner, Deputy Coroner, or Justice holding an inquest, and to every legally qualified medical practitioner attending such inquest in obedience to a summons for the purpose of giving evidence, or performing a post-mortem examination at the direction of the Coroner and giving evidence thereof at the inquest, and to any person (not being a paid servant of the Government) employed to summon a jury.

In addition to any fees to which any person may be entitled as aforesaid, he shall be entitled to a refund of the actual expenses of locomotion reasonably incurred by him in the performance of his duties in travelling by rail, coach, or steamboat, and in respect of any other expenses of locomotion shall be entitled to receive an allowance calculated in accordance with such rate as may be prescribed in that behalf by the Governor-General in Council.

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, prescribe rates of fees and allowances to be payable to such persons as aforesaid in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section.

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection one of section sixteen, section twenty-one, and the Second Schedule.