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Coroners Act 2006

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

104A: Associate coroners

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The Governor-General can appoint people to be associate coroners. You need to have been a barrister or solicitor for at least 5 years to be appointed. The appointment is for a period of up to 5 years. The Governor-General makes the appointment after getting advice from the Attorney-General. The Attorney-General gives this advice after talking to the Minister. You can be reappointed for more terms. If you are an associate coroner, you stop being one when you turn 70 years old. But if you are 70 or older, you can be reappointed for one more term. This term can be up to 2 years and is specified in the warrant of reappointment.

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

104AAssociate coroners

  1. The Governor-General may, by warrant, appoint fit and proper people to be associate coroners.

  2. Each one of those people must have held a practising certificate as a barrister or solicitor for at least 5 years.

  3. The appointment must be for a period not exceeding 5 years, but the person is eligible to be reappointed for 1 or more further terms.

  4. The appointment must be made on the advice of the Attorney-General, given after consultation with the Minister.

  5. An associate coroner vacates that office, if they have not earlier done so in another way, on attaining the age of 70 years.

  6. However, a former associate coroner of or over the age of 70 years may be reappointed as an associate coroner for 1 term that—

  7. is specified in the warrant of reappointment; and
    1. does not exceed 2 years.

      Notes
      • Section 104A: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Coroners Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 8).