Coroners (Amendment) Act 2024
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Ineligibility for appointment to office of coroner or deputy coroner and disqualification from office | ||
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9. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 14: | ||
“14A. (1) A person shall not be eligible for appointment, and shall cease to hold office, as a coroner or deputy coroner if he or she— | ||
(a) is convicted on indictment of an offence, | ||
(b) is convicted of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty, | ||
(c) is sentenced to a term of imprisonment for an offence in respect of which he or she was convicted, | ||
(d) has a declaration made against him or her under section 819 of the Act of 2014 or is deemed to be subject to such a declaration by virtue of Chapter 5 of Part 14 of that Act, or | ||
(e) is subject to, or is deemed to be subject to, a disqualification order within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 14 of the Act of 2014 whether by virtue of that Chapter or of any other provision of that Act. | ||
(2) In subsection (1), ‘Act of 2014’ means the Companies Act 2014 .”. |