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Coroners Act 2006

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40: Coroner may require person's doctor to report

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"The coroner can ask a person's doctor for a report about their health before they died."

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A coroner can ask a doctor who treated a person before they died to write a report. The coroner will tell the doctor what information to include in the report. The report might include the person's health information, which is defined in section 22B of the Health Act 1956.

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40Coroner may require person's doctor to report

  1. A coroner may, by written notice to a doctor who attended a person before death, require the doctor to give the coroner a written report (containing information specified in the notice) relating to the person.

  2. The information specified in a notice under subsection (1) may include, without limitation, the dead person’s health information (as defined in section 22B of the Health Act 1956).

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  • Section 40(2): inserted, on , by section 26 of the Coroners Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 29).