Coroners (Amendment) Act 2024

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Number 4 of 2024

CORONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definitions

2. Amendment of section 6A of Principal Act

3. Tenure of office of coroner for coroner’s district of Dublin

4. Amendment of section 11 of Principal Act

5. Assignment and appointment of temporary coroner where necessary due to number or nature of deaths

6. Designation of senior coroner

7. Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act

8. Amendment of section 13B of Principal Act

9. Ineligibility for appointment to office of coroner or deputy coroner and disqualification from office

10. Removal from office of coroner or deputy coroner

11. Amendment of section 49 of Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022

12. Short title and collective citation

Acts Referred to

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (No. 19)

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Coroners Act 1962 (No. 9)

Coroners Acts 1962 to 2020

Number 4 of 2024

CORONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

An Act to provide for the appointment of one or more coroners in the coroner’s district of Dublin; to provide for the assignment or appointment of a person to act temporarily as a coroner in a coroner’s district where necessary due to the number or nature of deaths in that district; to provide for the circumstances in which a person shall not be eligible for appointment, and shall cease to hold office, as a coroner or deputy coroner; and for those and other purposes to amend the Coroners Act 1962 and the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 ; and to provide for related matters.

[16th February, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: