Affected provisions

1. 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
   Transitional provisions have been updated to apply to inquiries opened before, on, or after the commencement date of section 65A
2. 4: Coroner's role
   The coroner's role has been updated to require completion and signing of a certificate of findings only if the inquiry is completed and not earlier closed
3. 8: Overview of this Act
   Part 3 of the Act has been restructured and expanded to include the closing of inquiries, with minor wording changes to improve clarity
4. 28: Any person may access specified certificates and notices
   New provisions have been added to allow access to notices of a coroner's decision to close an inquiry and to require the return of retained parts and samples when an inquiry is closed
5. 55: Return on request of retained parts and samples
   New provisions have been added to allow access to notices of a coroner's decision to close an inquiry and to require the return of retained parts and samples when an inquiry is closed
6. 83: Specialist advisers to sit with and help coroners
   The appointment of a specialist adviser now ends when the coroner closes the inquiry or completes and signs a certificate of findings
7. 94A: Chief coroner to monitor inquiries not completed within 1 year
   Exceptions have been added to sections 94A and 94B, providing that the chief coroner's monitoring and publication requirements do not apply to inquiries closed under section 65A
8. 94B: Chief coroner to publish information regarding certain inquiries for which findings not completed
   Exceptions have been added to sections 94A and 94B, providing that the chief coroner's monitoring and publication requirements do not apply to inquiries closed under section 65A
9. 118: Coroner may call for investigations or examinations or commission reports
   A new circumstance has been added under which a coroner may call for investigations or examinations, namely for the purpose of deciding whether to close an inquiry