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Coroners Act 2006

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

120: Coroner may by written notice require person to supply information or documents or other things

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"The coroner can ask you for information or documents in writing."

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A coroner can ask you to give them information or documents by sending you a written notice. You must give the coroner the information or documents they ask for within the time they specify, unless you are excused under section 121. If you give information, you must write it down and sign it, or have an authorised person sign it if you are a company.

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Powers

120Coroner may by written notice require person to supply information or documents or other things

  1. A coroner who considers it necessary for the purposes of an inquiry the coroner has opened under this Act may, by written notice served on a person, require that person, within a time specified in the notice,—

  2. to give the coroner any information or class of information specified in the notice; or
    1. to produce to the coroner, or to a person specified in the notice acting on the coroner's behalf in accordance with the notice, any document or class of documents or other thing specified in the notice.

      1. The person on whom the notice is served must give or produce a thing (whether the thing is information, a class of information, a document, a class of documents, or any other thing) sought by the notice, except to the extent that the person is excused from doing so by section 121.

      2. Information given in response to a notice under subsection (1)(a) must be given in writing and,—

      3. if given by a natural person, must be signed by the person; and
        1. if given by a body corporate, must be signed by an officer authorised to sign on behalf of the body corporate.

          1. This section does not limit or affect a coroner's powers under any other enactment, for example, under section 200 (coroner may call for report on fatal accident) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

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          • Section 120(4): amended, on , by section 232 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (2015 No 70).