Railway Regulation Act (Returns of Signal Arrangements, Working, & C.) 1873

Returns by coroners.

5. Every coroner in England and Ireland within seven days after holding an inquest on the body of any person who is proved to have been killed on a railway, or to have died in consequence of injuries received on a railway, and in Scotland every procurator fiscal, within the like time and in like cases, shall make to one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, in such form as he may require, a return of the death and the cause thereof.