Coroners Act 2006

Deaths to be reported and post-mortems - Release of bodies, and retention and return of body parts and bodily samples

46: Costs of transporting body moved for post-mortem, etc

You could also call this:

"Who pays to move a body for a post-mortem examination?"

If a coroner directs a body to be moved for a post-mortem, you need to know who pays for the transport. The responsible department pays for the body to be taken back to where it was when the coroner made the direction, or to where the post-mortem was done, as directed under section 31. The department also pays if the body is taken to another location, but only if it does not cost more than taking it back to the original location. This does not stop the department from paying for other transport costs for the body.

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"When a coroner can release a still-born child"

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"How pathologists take body parts or samples to help coroners investigate deaths"

Part 2Deaths to be reported and post-mortems
Release of bodies, and retention and return of body parts and bodily samples

46Costs of transporting body moved for post-mortem, etc

This section applies to a body transported to another location in accordance with a coroner's direction, or for the purposes of a post-mortem directed under section 31.
The responsible department is responsible for—
the costs of transporting the body back to its location when the direction was made or the post-mortem was directed; or
the costs of transporting the body to another location if, or only to the extent that, those costs do not exceed the costs referred to in paragraph (a).

This section does not prevent the responsible department from meeting any other costs of transporting the body.

Notes

Section 46(2): amended, on 21 July 2016, by section 30 of the Coroners Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 29).
Section 46(3): amended, on 21 July 2016, by section 30 of the Coroners Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 29).