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Coroners Act 2006

Appointments, administration, powers, offences and penalties, and technical provisions - Appointments

107: Concurrent office or employment

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"Coroners can have another job as a judge, but other jobs need approval"

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The chief coroner makes a plan with the Attorney-General about what jobs are okay for coroners to have. You can be a coroner and have another job as a judge, but you cannot have any other paid job unless it is on the list of approved jobs. The same rules apply if you are an associate coroner, you can have another job as a judge but no other paid job unless it is approved.

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Part 4Appointments, administration, powers, offences and penalties, and technical provisions
Appointments

107Concurrent office or employment

  1. The chief coroner must, after consulting the Attorney-General, develop and publish a protocol specifying—

  2. the employment, or types of employment, that the Attorney-General considers to be compatible with being a coroner or an associate coroner; and
    1. the offices, or types of offices, that the Attorney-General considers to be compatible with being a coroner or an associate coroner.

      1. The protocol may specify different employment or offices, or types of employment or types of offices, for relief coroners and other coroners and associate coroners.

      2. A coroner may hold another judicial office but must not undertake any other paid employment or hold any non-judicial office (whether paid or not) unless that employment or office is of a type specified in the protocol as being compatible with being a coroner.

      3. An associate coroner may hold another judicial office but must not undertake any other paid employment or hold any non-judicial office (whether paid or not) unless that employment or office is of a type specified in the protocol as being compatible with being an associate coroner.

      Notes
      • Section 107: replaced, on , by section 60 of the Coroners Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 29).
      • Section 107(1)(a): amended, on , by section 17(1) of the Coroners Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 8).
      • Section 107(1)(b): amended, on , by section 17(1) of the Coroners Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 8).
      • Section 107(2): amended, on , by section 17(2) of the Coroners Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 8).
      • Section 107(4): inserted, on , by section 17(3) of the Coroners Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 8).